Talk:Robert Krebs

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Is this a reference?[edit]

I just removed the following from the very end of the article page:

{{Catagory:Southern Pacific's Blue Streak Merchendise: 6 Decades of the Great American Freight Train}}

Was that supposed to be in the references? I know it's a book (since I sold a few copies when I worked in a model train shop a while ago); I don't have a copy myself, but it looks like it could be a citation for the newly added paragraph. Slambo (Speak) 14:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Rob Krebs holding the Missouri Pacific's hottest train is from Fred Frailey's Blue Streak Merchandise pages 66-67. --SSW9389 22:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SSW9389 (talk • contribs)

This is unsourced as of yet, but from another website: Rob Krebs is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania. I had read elsewhere that he went to Stanford, maybe that was an undergraduate degree. The other claim is that Krebs father worked for a bank that loaned money to the Southern Pacific and helped his son get a job. Rob Krebs started with Southern Pacific Company in Portland, Oregon. Krebs soon worked up to Trainmaster and then made the transfer to the Cotton Belt. --SSW9389 22:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I knew Rob Krebs at Stanford. He was 1964 AB [sic] Political Science there. Dadofsam (talk) 03:24, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This reference keeps getting deleted: 4. Blue Streak Merchandise by Fred Frailey, Kalmbach 1991. Fred Frailey hit the nail on the head when he wrote about Rob Krebs in Blue Steak Merchandise. Krebs was known as the "Ball of Fire" on the Cotton Belt. No one messed with him unless they realized that they were subject to getting fired in short order. --SSW9389 16:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SSW9389 (talk • contribs)

Riding the Rails[edit]

Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America's Railroads is Robert Krebs' book. It was published by Indiana University Press in 2018. The ISBN for the hardcover edition is 978-0-253-03186-0. Krebs acknowledges that journalist and railroad author Fred Frailey helped him put this book together. And that his daughter was the primary editor. Suffice to say that there is biographical information in this book. --SSW9389 (talk) 16:01, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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