Wasn't the practice of forming subsidiary companies to build new lines
also to limit liability? That is, if the subsidiary went bankrupt, the
parent corporation wouldn't be subject to the claims of the subsidiary's
creditors. Can anyone comment or clarify? .....Don Z.
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:41:32 -0800 (PST) Harold Huber
<sarge8usa@y...> writes:
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> All,
> Norm is totally correct as I too searched the company corporate
> history finding the name of Big Horn Southern, why that name I will
> never understand as the southern end of the Big Horns is in Wyoming
> at the CB&Q stations of Powder River, Lysite, and Bonneville. I
> chose my fictional HOn3 railroad into the southern Big Horns and Owl
> Creek mountains name from the Big Horn Southern with the logo as the
> Rio Grande Southern but inserting Big Horn where the Rio Grande is.
> My point, one can learn very much from the corporate records. CB&Q
> generally had their construction companys name the railroad they
> were building a different name than CB&Q and after the portion was
> finished it was absorbed into the Q. My theory is that if it was
> not finished the Q would not have a failure on the record of their
> corporate history, but maybe some of you know different.
> Harold Huber
> Sheridan, WY The Big Horn Southern Railroad Company and completed 28
> Oct 1894. It was deeded to the CBQ 1 Dec 1897.
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