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- From: dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone)
- Subject: CGW (was the Tunnel thread)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.173753@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <1992Dec5.083157.23841@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <122200190@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:37:53 GMT
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- In article <122200190@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, wbrill@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Warren Brill)
- writes:
- > In rec.railroad, dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone) writes:
- > > Btw, the bridge you're recalling was the Chicago Great Western bridge on
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Model Railroader ran an article a couple of
- > months ago on a ficticious CGW "bridge road"
- > supposedly created out of the wreckage of
- > the CGW, and my impression was that CGW is
- > no more, that this was all made-up. Is this
- > true, or is the CGW still existant. BTW,
- > is there an up-to-date register of Class 1
- > lines like there is for short lines?
-
- As I recall, the CGW was merged into the Chicago & North Western in '60 or '61.
- (I can never remember dates.) Many railroads' corporate entities exist long
- after such mergers through spin-offs, operating some business such leasing cars
- owned by the pre-merger road but not absorbed in the merger, or dealing with
- real estate which wasn't desired in the merger for some reason. I don't know
- if this is true in the case of CGW.
-
- Happy Holidays, everyone!
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- David L. Boone
- Engineer, Iowa State University Computation Center
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