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- From: andre@king.slc.mentorg.com (Andre' Hut)
- Subject: Re: Chicago Burlington and Quincy (was: the proposed T line in Boston
- In-Reply-To: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:06:27 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan25.093203.2635@merrimack.edu> <1993Jan25.170627.27315@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:22:21
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- In article <1993Jan25.170627.27315@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan25.093203.2635@merrimack.edu>, by gemmellj@merrimack.edu:
- >> Hi, I have a question on the name of an old railroad.
- >> Was the Burlington, Chicago, and Quincy the name of an old rr?
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- >The Chicago Burlington and Quincy is one of the corporate ancestors of the
- >Burlington Northern, a very large railroad by any standard. The other
- >ancestor of today's Burlington is the Great Northern.
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- Actually BN is the result of the merger of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and
- the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Initially, the new name was going to be
- the Great Northern Pacific and Burlington, but they settled on Burlington Northern.
- The BN also is composed of some smaller roads too, like Colorado & Southern,
- Forth Worth & Denver, Spokane Portland & Seattle and
- St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco).
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