RE: [CBQ] Helpers.

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

This may be heresy, but..

 

When James J. Hill was trying to get the GN and NP into Chicago the CB&Q was
not his first choice.   He would have preferred getting the Milwaukee Road
or the Wisconsin Central/Soo Line.

 

He was of the opinion that The Q was a poorly built railroad and stated that
it had more curves and grades on the prairies than the GN had crossing the
Rockies.

 

While the CB&Q was a progressive railroad in many ways, in the early days I
am beginning to believe that The Empire Builder was correct.    The CB&Q had
a continuous program of line relocations, curve easing,  grade reductions
and other general improvements after the turn of the century that suggest
that there was plenty to do.    

 

Charlie Vlk



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