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Title: Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency by Klink Garrett, Toby Smith ISBN: 0-8263-3049-5 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: superbly insightful
Comment: Besides being a captivating and charming study of one man's career, this book reveals-in detail-how an American institution slipped into oblivion. Railway Express died because of a total lack of creative vision on the corporate side, outright greed, and an idiotic failure to anticipate or be flexible with this country's changing transportation system. It's hard to believe that REA in the 1950s did not make fortification plans for the obvious decline of passenger railroads, and thus move in another direction. But as Garrett and Smith make completely clear here, the company was too busy enjoying the good life and resting on its laurels as a highly respected organization to be bothered with such thoughts.
"Ten Turtles to Tucumcari"-terrific title, by the way-ought to be required reading by CEOs-to-be everywhere. Its message of what can happen to a company whose blind executives believe that a business landscape will never change is frightening and enormously instructive. I loved it.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Thin Book
Comment: This thin book was even thinner on the late days of the Railway Express Agency. I was tickled at the detail Klink Garrett gave for his early years, but this detail was skipped after his move up the corporate ladder. I think they spent themselves into oblivion and nobody seemed to care. Did they fall, or were they pushed? Did Klink help or hinder? I couldn't tell and Klink didn't either. Still, it was an interesting story about a big company that just up and disappeared.
Rating: 5
Summary: The company's decline & the demise of the nation's railroad
Comment: Ten Turtles To Tucumcari: A Personal History Of The Railway Express Agency is a very personal history of the Railway Express Agency comes from a man who spent much of his life in a national sales position with REA coordinating the transit needs of the Defense Department. His story combines ethics and business savvy with an account of the company's decline and the demise of the nation's railroads.
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Title: The Great Northern Railway: A History (Great Northern Railway) by Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, Roy V. Scott, Don L. Hofsommer ISBN: 0816644292 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002 (Railroads in America) by Richard Saunders Jr. ISBN: 0875803164 Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985 by Chas. V. Mutschler, Charles V. Mutschler ISBN: 0874222524 Publisher: Washington State University Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Metropolitan Railways: Rapid Transit in America (Railroads Past and Present) by William D. Middleton ISBN: 0253341795 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Conrail (Railroad Color History) by Timothy Scott Doherty, Brian Solomon ISBN: 076031425X Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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