Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (Railroads Past and Present)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253352169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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From his role in passing the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to his work on creating the quasi-public Conrail, Visionary Railroader examines the impact of Langdon's active life with clear text, unique representations of media of the day, and select family photos.. The same year, he became lead trustee for the bankrupt Penn Central and three years later assumed the presidency. In 1964, Langdon took charge of the Rock Island, and by the time he left in 1970, he had spearheaded major improvements for this struggling carrier. As president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Jervis Langdon Jr. Visionary Railroader chronicles the life of a key figure in the history of rail travel in the United States. had the opportunity to put progressive concepts into practice
"An important contribution to the thin genre of Railroad Management" according to Henry Posner III. Books about contemporary railroad management are thin and far between, in part because the history is still being written and the theories are still being tested. For this reason there is little yet written about railroad management in the final years of the Age of Regulation, ie up to 1980. This is unfortunate, as the lessons are useful to today's industry and perhaps more importantly to today's policy makers."Visionary Railroader" complements Rush Loving's "The Men Who Loved Trains", which focuses on Conrail and its predecessors from the perspective of multiple personalities; i. Good book, excellent historical account. A good read. The author might have been a little too much of a cheerleader for Mr. Langdon, but a good historical account. If you are interested in the workings of the railroads in the 20th century, this book is a MUST READ.. Jorgagal said Great People. Jervis Langdon was my next door neighbor when I lived in Elmira. One would not know whether they had a dime or a dollar. Real down to earth people.
Roger Grant, Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University, is author of 24 books, most of them on railroad history. He lives in Central, South Carolina.. He has written company histories of the Chicago & North Western, the Chicago Great Western, the Erie Lackawanna, the Georgia & Florida, and the Wabash railroads. H
Roger Grant writes, when the American railroad industry imploded in the '60s and '70s, Jervis Langdon Jr. family which produced Olivia "Livy" Langdon, Mark Twain's beloved wife and mother of their three children.Steve Goddard, author of Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century, historywire, January 1, 2009"Visionary Railroader is an enjoyable account of a fascinating individual. As Clemson University historian H. was well positioned as president of the Rock Island and later the Baltimore & Ohio Railro