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Re: [BRHSlist] Hill Lines

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Hill Lines
From: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:11:07 -0500
References: <37.81edee4.26b3853e@a...>
Reply-to: zephyr03@s...
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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