Category: History - American
It sometimes happens that experiences long since past seem to be repeated, and that knowledge apparently forgotten proves again of service. This is illustrated by the subject of railroad reorganization. In the years between 1893 and 1899 an imposing group of American railroads...
It sometimes happens that experiences long since past seem to be repeated, and that knowledge apparently forgotten proves again of service. This is illustrated by the subject of...
4. CHAPTER IEarly history—Extension to Chicago—Trunk-line rate wars—Effect on the company—Extension to New York—Sale of bonds to pay off floating debt—Unsatisfactory traffic conditions—Rece...
5. CHAPTER II6. CHAPTER III7. CHAPTER IV8. CHAPTER VRichmond & Danville—East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia—Formation of the Southern Railway Security Company—Growth and combinations— Failure and reorganization of the East Tenness...
9. CHAPTER VICharter—Strategic extensions—Competitive extensions—Effect on finances—Raise in rate of dividend—Reorganization of 1889—Acquisition of the St. Louis & San Francisco and of the C...
10. CHAPTER VIIActs of 1862 and 1864—High cost of construction—Forced combination with the Kansas Pacific and the Denver Pacific—Unprofitable branches —Adams’s administration—Financial difficu...
11. CHAPTER VIIIAct of 1864—Failure and reorganization—Extension into the Northwest— Villard and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company—Lack of prosperity —Refunding mortgage—Lease of Wisconsin...
12. CHAPTER IX13. CHAPTER XDefinition of railroad reorganization—Causes of the financial difficulties of railroads—Unrestricted capitalization and unrestricted competition—Problem of cash requirements—Pro...
14. CHAPTER IEarly history—Extension to Chicago—Trunk-line rate wars—Effect on the company—Extension to New York—Sale of bonds to pay off floating debt—Unsatisfactory traffic conditions—Rece...
15. CHAPTER IIThe New York & Erie Railroad was organized in 1833 in the hope of bringing to the southern tier of counties in New York State a prosperity equal to that which the Erie Canal had...
16. CHAPTER IIIThe Philadelphia & Reading Railroad has been peculiarly unfortunate. Although serving a region of abundant traffic, it failed three times between 1880 and 1895, and was in the h...
17. CHAPTER IVWith the year 1888 a new period in the history of the Reading began. The long struggle to bring the company back to solvency was fairly over, and for the first time in seven yea...
18. CHAPTER VRichmond & Danville—East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia—Formation of the Southern Railway Security Company—Growth and Combinations —Failure and reorganization of the East Tenness...
19. CHAPTER VICharter—Strategic extensions—Competitive extensions—Effect on finances—Raise in rate of dividend—Reorganization of 1889—Acquisition of the St. Louis & San Francisco and of the C...
20. CHAPTER VIIActs of 1862 and 1864—High cost of construction—Forced combination with the Kansas Pacific and the Denver Pacific—Unprofitable branches—Adams’s administration—Financial difficul...
21. CHAPTER VIIIAct of 1864—Failure and reorganization—Extension into the Northwest—Villard and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company—Lack of prosperity—Refunding mortgage—Lease of Wisconsin Ce...
22. CHAPTER IXThe original Rock Island Railroad, chartered in 1847,[646] was completed between Chicago and Rock Island in 1854. Construction was continued from Rock Island to Council Bluffs a...
23. CHAPTER XDefinition of railroad reorganization—Causes of the financial difficulties of railroads—Unrestricted capitalization and unrestricted competition—Problem of cash requirements—Pro...