Unfortunately, the book is available only in hardcover at more than $30. It’s time to see what the interlibrary lending system can produce!
Interlibrary Loan worked for me. The cost was about $3 for shipping and handling. Well worth it.
Ed
[8D]sound delicious[swg]
In November 1964, a MoPac ticket agent at Warrensburg, Mo., told me, of Jenks: “He ruined the Rock Island, and now he’s ruining our road.”
I’m sure his perspective was mainly from the passenger side, for Jenks surely was death on the passenger service that was eating his lunch. (And he did go through that service on both roads like a dose of salts.)
Since, everything I’ve read about Jenks indicates he was a heck of a good railroad man in a difficult time. Didn’t know or had forgotten about the situation that helped move him from the Rock Island.
[8D]it was ashoulda coulda time that came and went[banghead]
Until the abandonments and bankruptcies there were five lines competing for traffic between Chicago and the Omaha gateway: C&NW, CB&Q, CMStP&P, CGW, IC. Six lines, if one counts the roundabout Wabash route. Obviously it was overbuilt for an earlier era with a dense network of feeder branchlines in Iowa, and the demise of some was inevitable.