On this edition of the Middle Chamber Books and Music Podcast, we chat with Texas-based author Terry Beck, whose book, A Train of Thoughts: Forty Years Workin’ on the Railroad, is a collection of stories based on [Read more…]
The Penn Central 1974 video, made by the bankrupt railroad’s trustees to convince Congress to bail out the company, is now available as a DVD in our e-Store. This is probably the only corporate video [Read more…]
This is the movie commissioned by the Penn Central Railroad bankruptcy trustees to try to convince members of Congress that the railroad desperately needed a cash infusion or some other federal intervention if the railroad [Read more…]
In Middle Chamber Books Podcast #5 , we interview Rush Loving Jr., a former associate editor of Fortune magazine, and author of The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to [Read more…]
One last GG-1 photo for the archives. This one, taken in October 1981, shows Judy and Steve in the cab of GG-1 #4935 in PRR livery on the day of the last run for NJ [Read more…]
“A Grassroots Strategy to Beat the Feds,” bylined article, Fall 1995. PDF Download. In 1984, the Reagan Administration determined that Conrail should be privatized by a sale to one of its largest competitors, the Norfolk [Read more…]