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The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry (Railroads Past and Present)
by Rush Loving
from Indiana University Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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One of the most valuable transportation histories of the last decade 
Penn Central. To this day, the name of this corporation sends shudders through the world of finance. When it went bankrupt in June of 1970, it was the largest bankruptcy in United States history, and it held that title for the next thirty-one years. (It took the collapse of Enron in 2001 to supplant it). In The Men Who Loved Trains, journalist Rush loving tells the story of how Penn Central came into being, but even more importantly how a few men picked up the pieces afterward and pulled the railroad... more info
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Should of been called 'Some' Men Who Loved Trains 
Not all the names in the book "loved trains".
Too much of the book centered around on man; Jim McClellan (who apparently was a friend of the author), that I never heard of before, even after reading 'The Wreck of the Penn Central' and 'No Way to Run a Railroad' (two other must reads).
It filled in many loose ends from those books since this was written fairly recently.
It's too bad there was a lack of names mentioned in the last chapter where the blame can be placed regarding the current... more info
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Why are the trains so slow in Vermont? 
This book is written in a folksy style for railroad buffs who already know the story and want to argue about it. I couldn't read it. All the details were screwy about Perlman's blue eyes and nonsense about every teeny personal detail of meetings that happened 5o years ago. I'd like to know the story but will never with these guys. Maybe they are why the trains run so slowly in Vermont.
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Good for all who love trains
As a train lover and a man who grew up along Connecticut's shoreline during the waning days of the New Haven (and an uncle who worked on the NY Central) I found this book an amazing archive of the key players in the demise of the "great" roads and the emergence of the "modern" US railroads. The only drawback was the necessity to understand the terms of stocks, shares, corporate finance and other things financial. So some of this book required some homework (and a lot of reading portions two and three... more info
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