Regional Rail Reorganization Act, 87 Stat. 1005, 45 U.S.C. 741 (1974). See statement of FishwickJohn P., President, Norfolk & Western Railway, in U.S. Cong., House, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, USRA Final System Plan, Hearings (94th Cong., 1st Sess., 1975), pp. 119–126.
2.
See CurrieA. W., The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957); FournierLeslie T.Railway Nationalization in Canada (Toronto: Macmillan, 1935), Chapter VII.
3.
See Railway Age (29 November 1971), p. 42.
4.
AltmanEdward I., “Predicting Railroad Bank-ruptcies in America,”Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science (Spring 1973), p. 184.
5.
See Railway Age, op. cit.
6.
Canadian National Railways, Annual Report, 1971, p. 23.
7.
See ConantMichael, “Structural Reorganization of the Northeast Railroads,”I.C.C. Practitioners' Journal (January-February 1976), p. 207.
8.
See U.S. Task Force on Railroad Productivity, Improving Railroad Productivity (Washington, D.C., 1973), PP. 1–50.
9.
U.S., ICC, Transport Economics (new series), Vol. II, No. 4 (1975), p. 12.
10.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region (Washington, D.C., 1974), Vol. I; United States Railway Association, Preliminary System Plan (Washington, D.C., 1975), Vol. 1, Chapter 7; United States Railway Association, Final System Plan (Washington, D.C., 1975), Vol. II, pp. 1–26.
11.
See ConantMichael, Railroad Mergers and Abandonments (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), Chapter V.
12.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast RegionVol. 1, p. 28.
13.
Ibid., p. 5.
14.
See United States Railway Association, Preliminary System Plan, Vol. 1, p, 263.
15.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region, Vol. II, Part 2, Zone 160 to Zone 163.
16.
See statement of President Burdakin in U.S. Cong., House, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, USRA Final System Plan, Hearings (94th Cong., 1st Sess., 1975), pp. 284–286.
17.
See U.S. Cong., Senate, Northeastern Railroad Transportation Crisis, Hearings on S. 1031 (93d Cong., 1st Sess., 1973), pp. 141–146.