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An interesting couple of books to read are the collected issues of Rock Island's employee magazine <i>The Rocket</i>, from 1960-1969 in a two volume set that also includes the anual reports to the stockholders for the years mentioned. <br /> <br />You get to read about the improvements the Rock made to its physical plant, plus new locomotive and car acquisitions, and new customers locating their businesses along RI track. It's easy to get the impression that things were looking up for the Rock, until you read the anual reports and find that the Rock was operating at a break even rate through the early 1960s, until 1965 when things started going downhill financially for RI. Costs went up, and profits went down.
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