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Title: A Good Managerial and Economic History
Review: Roger Grant is one of the best railroad and transportation historians around, but I emphasize the word "historian." Although this volume is a "must have" for anybody interested in the Erie, Lackawanna and Erie-Lackawanna railroads it focuses largely on the history of the finances, economics and board room politics of the railroads and not enough on the locomotives, routes, rolling stock and operating practices of the Erie-Lackawanna and its component parts. Having grown up along the Erie's former New Jersey & New York subsidiary and the Erie's original main line the Piermont Branch I was a bit disappointed that there was not enough "color" in terms of a story about the actual running and operations of the railroad and its interface with the communities it served. Well written, but I must confess it took me two years and some re-reads to get through it. Definitely essential for anyone interested in the EL, but only worth about 4 stars.
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