Record details

• ISBN: 0807816361
• ISBN: 9780807816363
• Physical Description: viii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
• Copyright: ©1985

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Putting out the fire -- "The strongest management" -- The birth of the Southern Railway -- Sam Spencer's grand design -- In the steps of the founder -- "How many blisters do you have?" -- "We have an abiding faith" -- "What a bold conception!" -- FFVs and tar heels take to the rails -- Westward the rails -- Casualties of war -- Out of the ashes -- "We were happy, and it showed" -- "The best executive I ever saw" -- Bill Brosnan : "It can't be done" -- Graham Claytor and his team -- Stanley Crane : "If we are smart enough" -- Harold Hall : "One of the very best."

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