01835cam a2200313 i 4500 431816635 TxAuBib 20200811120000.0 190329s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780996122566 hardcover $30.17 0996122567 hardcover $30.17 TxAuBib rda Currie, Earl J. Burlington Northern : a great adventure 1970-1979 / Earl J. Currie. United States : Rails Northwest, 2019. xxviii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Foreword by David H. Burns. Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 387-416). Part I: Merger plan and implementation -- Part II: The price paid for merger -- Part III: Post-merger operations -- Part IV: Financing in the 1970s: issues, challenges, and innovations -- Part V: Managing BN's vast resource holdings -- Part VI: Growth and development in the Powder River Basin -- Part VII: The people of the railroad -- Part VIII: It's been a great adventure -- Addendum: recollections, insights, and knowledge to be shared by Norman Lorentzsen. Burlington Northern formed from the merger of four railways. Ten years later, its lines handled the highest tonnages of any railroad line in the world, past or present. The first in a two-volume series, "Burlington Northern" covers this important decade. 20200811. United States History. Burlington Northern Railroad--History. Alliance (Nebraska) History. Railroads United States History.