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The Rock and Mr Ingram: An Insider's View.
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[quote user="beaulieu"][quote user="Victrola1"] <p>What if the Rock had headed west from Santa Rosa, NM to the Los Angeles basin before WWI? Would it have ended up as the "Milwaukee Road of the Southwest" when hell to pay came due in the 1970's? </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>It would have been interesting if they had bought the two Phelps-Dodge copper roads, the El Paso & Southwestern, and the El Paso & Northeastern. This would have taken them from Santa Rosa, NM all the way west to Tucson, AZ. Within striking distance of Los Angeles.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>What were the routes of the El Paso & Southwestern and the El Paso & Northeastern (e.g. if I was to trace the routes with a highway atlas)? As Phelps-Dodge owned roads, were they free of silent control of the SP and/or SF?</p><p>Also, what would have been the potential traffic base for such a Rock Island "Milwaukee Southwest" PCE, and would it have amounted to as much as what the Pacific Northwest offered the Milwaukee?</p>
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