Gary / John
Do you know when Budd became a director of the GM&N? Was it related to the four way agreement with the GM&N, Alton and AT&SF in about 1945? I’ve had a quick look, including in Overton’s
Burlington Route, but can’t find any reference to it, but presumably it was after Budd became CB&Q President in 1931, or at least 18 years after the impending purchase was rumoured.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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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 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