That might explain how Ralph Budd became a Director of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern and voted against its purchase of the Mobile & Ohio from the Southern because it would mean a serious loss of traffic to the CB&Q north of Paducah. See discussion at p 32 of Jim Boyd’s the GM&O-The Alton Route in Color, Volume 1.
Gary Laakso
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Rupert Gamlen
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 3:42 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: [CBQ] The Rumour Mill
From the 1913 Railway Review
It is reported that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. has about completed arrangements to acquire control of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago R. R. [later Gulf, Mobile & Northern, later still Gulf, Mobile & Ohio] The Burlington tracks run as far south as Metropolis on the Ohio river, opposite Paducah, Ky., and the tracks of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago run northward as far as Middletown, Tenn., and the Burlington would have to build a short connecting line.
The New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago R. R., according to a rumor, is planning to begin work in the near future on its extension from Beaumont, Miss., into New Orleans, La.
If this rumour was correct and had come to fruition, the CB&Q tracks would have reached New Orleans. An interesting thought!
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ