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- From: msjohnso@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: CMStP&P RR
- Message-ID: <62340@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:01:39 GMT
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- Joe.Russ@mixcom.mixcom.com (Joe.Russ) writes:
-
- >Okay, if that was the official corporate name, where did the (Chicago
- >Milwaukee Corp.) come from? Keep in mind there are currently two CMCs
- >- one is the above which still holds railroad interests in trackage,
- >equipment, a shortline or two, and some other businesses while the
- >other, the CMC Heartland Partners, is a spin-off of it which was
- >formed to handle the real estate transactions after the merger but has
- >failed (at least here in Milwaukee) to do anything.
-
- Chicago Milwaukee Corp. was formed some time (maybe 2 years) before the
- bankruptcy of the Milwaukee Road. It was formed as a holding company which
- owned the railroad, the Milwaukee Land Company (which had timberlands in
- the Pacific Northwest), and a few other interests. When the railroad went
- bankrupt, I don't think CMC did. I wasn't aware of CMC Heartland Partners,
- which sounds like a limited partnership.
-
- A good reference on the last bankruptcy of the Milwaukee Road is
- "The Nation Pays Again," written and privately published by T.H. Ploss,
- an attorney with the railroad up to its demise. He revised it a couple of
- times as the Soo takeover and subsequent events occurred. The book was
- advertised fairly steadily in _Trains_ for some time, though I haven't
- seen it lately.
-
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