Download or read book Transformation of a Railroad Company written by Earl J. Currie and published by Rails Northwest. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, three major events--a Frisco Railroad merger, leadership changes, and deregulation--improved Burlington Northern's railway earnings and radically transformed corporate objectives, standards, work methods, and technology. This volume explores initiatives and strategies BN employed to reach the era's ambitious goals, as well as the cost of such profound change.