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- From: ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff)
- Subject: Re: Chicago Burlington and Quincy (was: the proposed T line in Boston
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.192346.7563@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan25.170627.27315@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:23:46 GMT
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- CB&Q, ETC.
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- Whoa, Doug! What about the Northern Pacific? Surely this
- line was nearly as important as the GN and CB&Q. Actually,
- two other lines also went into the BN: the Spokane,
- Portland & Seattle (already a subisdiary of the NP & GN)
- if I remember correctly) and the Pacific Coast, a shortline
- in the Seattle-Tacoma area which had already pretty much
- lost its identity. I think these lines still had their
- own corporate shell since I remember reading at the time
- that they were applicants to the merger. I suppose that
- the picture can become even more fuzzy when you start
- adding lines which had some separate identity even though
- they had no independence. I am thinking of the CB&Q
- subsidiaries like the Fort Worth & Denver and Colorado &
- Southern which were simply carried by the CB&Q into the
- merger with no voice in the application. Since then the
- Jolly Green Giant was also gobbled up the St. Louis-San
- Francisco (Frisco Lines).
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- ~S
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- Garth (Haridas) Groff
- "Not yet famous author"
- ggg9y@poe.acc.virginia.EDU Chant "Govinda Bohlo Hare"
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