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- From: roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Roma)
- Subject: Re: CGW (was the Tunnel thread)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1992Dec5.083157.23841@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <122200190@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1992Dec22.173753@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:13:26 GMT
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- dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone) writes:
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- >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.
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- The CGW was merged into the C&NW on July 1, 1968. You may be thinking of
- the Minneapolis & St. Louis, which became part of the C&NW in 1960.
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- Jon Roma
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