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Here are some quotes that I found in one of my personal collections. I am not a scholar so I neglected to also save the citation info. As I remember these were all from people who had actually been "on the ground." "1977 would be the year in which everything caught up with the Milwaukee. Deferred maintenance had 4,000 miles of the railroad under slow orders. The mainline through Montana was averaging a derailment a day." "When the decision to terminate the electrification was made, the only component of that system that was in actual engineering failure was the track. There were 31 derailments in one 28 day period on the Bitterroots, partly due to the pressure of business during 1973 and 1974." "I again went across the whole Chicago-Tacoma railroad on a business car trip in 1976, and I couldn't believe how much the railroad could "die" in so short of a time span. The car was bottoming out where nests of 10-12 ties in a row where no longer doing anything to the track structure other than taking up space. They were dead ties."
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