’78 Review…Outlook ’79

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Creator

Chicago Rock Island and Pacific

Title

’78 Review…Outlook ’79

Coverage

Chicago

Publisher

The Company

Date

1979

Description

This publication is from the wreckage of the successful efforts by other railroads to stop or delay the Rock Island-UP Merger. After a decade of regulatory hearings and conflict, the merger was approved, but the Union Pacific walked away in 1974 and the company entered trusteeship a year later. The Rock Island spent its last years on the edge of failure while attempting to rebuild itself. The company was liquidated in 1980.