JACKGP20@a... wrote:
>
> Great Northern and Northern Pacific each owned 49% of CB&Q. They also owned
> 50% each of the SP&S.
>
> It seems to me that from the days of James J. Hill, GN &NP didn't really
> compete but were part of one system as the B&A and Michigan Central were part
> of the New York Central System. This seems like this was the case up to the
> Burlington Northern merger.
>
The BN merger did little more than formalize the Hill Lines arrangement
which had been in de facto operation from before 1910 -
Marshall
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