Greg,
According to Overton's "Burlington Route" in the 1890's when UP went
into bankruptcy Perkins wanted to buy the Oregon Short Line (running
from Utah to Oregon) then build a line to connect, but board members
wanted to buy the Great Northern
Ahh what might have been!
I do like your thoughts.
Ken Martin
Gregory Myers wrote:
> Drew, as a brief follow-up to the below, before I settled on "historically"
> modeling the CB&Q in the early 1960's, I looked back at the historical
> records of the CB&Q and subsequent mergers up thru the BNSF of today with
> the idea of modeling the "Burlington Route 2000" - esentially how a the CB&Q
> would have looked in the late 1990's had it servived as the dominant partner
> throughout the merger process. The main historical fact that I changed was
> ownership of the CB&Q by the Great Northern / Northern Pacific. My "history"
> had the reverse true with a group of Chicago business interests financing
> the acquistion of the Great Northern / Northern Pacific / SP&S by the CB&Q
> as a route from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. Those three roads
> subsequently became the "Burlington Northern" subsidiary of the "Burlington
> Route" (as the CB&Q's corporate identity "officially" became in my version
> of the 1970's mergers).
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