Indiana Rail Road Company, Revised and Expanded Edition

Christopher Rund is a senior marketing communications writer and Assistant Vice President of Corporate Services and Public Relations for The Indiana Rail Road Company. Fred W. Frailey is author of Southern Pacific's Blue Streak Merchandise; Rolling Thunder; Zephyrs, Chiefs & Other Orphans; and Twilight of the Great Trains (IUP, 2010). Eric Powell is a railroad historian and photographer whose work has appeared in Trains and Railfan and Railroad.

• Foreword by Fred W. FraileyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rise and Rationalization of the Mainline of Mid-America 2. A Time to Build 3. The Postmodernist Empire Builder4. Life along the Railroad 5. Trestles and Tunnels 6. Run It Like a Business7. Growing Pains8. Rebuilding a Relic9. It's About Results10. Hiawatha in Hoosierland 11. The Right Time – Fred W.Frailey12. Change is Inevitable13. November 17, 2009: A Day in the Life of The Indiana Rail Road Company – Fred W. FraileyAppendix: Up and Down the LineNotesIndex

"Simultaneously a history of U.S. railroad industry and the biography of Hoback, this is an engrossing cultural and economic overview of how the aching railroad industry can be re-aligned as a viable backbone of the U.S. economy."—Nuvo