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Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q's centennial
From: archie hayden <kliner@mywdo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:18:06 -0600
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Steve,  You and I are history!!!  That's why we try so hard to keep it  
alive.  Archie
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:11 AM, STEVEN HOLDING wrote:

> And do not forget the hoppla of 1964 and the centennial of the  
> Chicago to Aurora
> Be 147 this year
> Trying to keep history alive
> Steve in SC
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 9:00:40 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q's centennial
>
> Two recent exchanges off list gave me the idea to share something a  
> few of you
> may be unaware of; i.e. what & why is the Burlington's "birthday"?
>
> For 90 plus years, corporate felt it was 1850 as that was when the  
> first track
> was laid from Turner Jct (now West Chicago) toward Aurora. IL and  
> trains
> operated. Indeed publications were issued and other 'collectibles'  
> provided
> denoting the 50th, 75th & 90th anniversary years (1900, 1925 & 1940)  
> The latter
> year is most commonly found in terms of collectibles as Richard  
> Overton, already
> compiling his massive history's of the Burlington was commissioned  
> to provide a
> summary history of the Burlington: "The First 90 Years" as a handout  
> to Emps
> and the public in 1940. The country was pulling out of the  
> Depression due to
> the build up of defense production, Zephyrs were a great success,  
> etc. When you
> think about it, not a lot of companies make a big deal out of a 90th  
> Birthday
> but the Burlington did. However in 1946 or "47 when it was learned a  
> national
> Railroad Fair would be celebrated in Chicago in 1949, the Burlington
> reconsidered its 'founding' date by backdating a year to 1849 when  
> the Aurora
> Branch was incorporated*. Thus the 90th anniversary promotions and the
> subsequent centennial promotions (special timetables, etc) are only  
> 9, NOT 10,
> yrs apart! As the late Paul Harvey would say; 'now you know the rest  
> of the
> story'. (this change of 'anniversaries' is also noted in Annual  
> Reports as
> milestones are usually noted; especially as former competitors fell  
> by the
> wayside, were absorbed by other roads or went into bankruptcy: Milw,  
> Rock, etc)
> Only a guess but I would think Mgt felt it better to be able to say  
> 'the
> Burlington is a 100 yrs old' in press releases etc when so much  
> focus was on
> RR'ing during the RR Fair in "49 than to wait til 1950. It also gave  
> them more
> of a history lead on some competitors. There is a reason, obviously,  
> why
> corporations often tout how many decades they have been in business  
> as evidence
> of their stability and good management!
>
> *The Q could have considered alternate dates based on when other  
> components came
> into existence either by charter, incorporation or track laying such  
> as Hannibal
> & St. Joe, Northern Cross, etc. When you are comprised of 206  
> railroads (some
> however 'paper' railroads wholly conceived & owned by CB&Q from day  
> 1), there
> are a lot of birthdays!
> This year will be birthday 161 or 162 depending on 'charter' (1849)  
> vs' track
> laying/operating (1850) of the Aurora Branch. And Burlington is  
> still the
> first name or at least first initial in American RR'ing! (if UP  
> considers
> themselves bigger aka better apparently Warren Buffett who lives in  
> Omaha did
> not think so!)
>
> Gerald
>
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> 
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