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[quote user="1435mm"][quote user="futuremodal"] <p>Even if the Rock had managed to get a hold of the EPSW and the EPNE, they still needed a way to reach the coast. How far east did the San Diego & Eastern run? </p><p>And once they did get to the coast, they still would need to access the Central Valley, since that's where all the rail traffic originated.</p><p>Wouldn't the RI have been better off if they'd focused on the Central Corridor instead of the Southwest?</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Rock Island+EP&NE+EP&SW+SD&AE ... what a horrible route that would have been. SP would have waited for it to die and bought what it wanted, just as it actually did. </p><p>Victrola1: "Milwaukee Road of the Southwest?" Yes. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Wait a minute, now.....</p><p><span class="smiley">[%-)]</span></p><p>First you say a RI+EP&NE+EP&SW+SD&AE would have been a horrible route, then you say such a route would have been a "Milwaukee Road of the Southwest" implying a well engineered superior route. Which is it?<span class="smiley">[;)]</span></p><p>BTW - only the inclusion of the SD&AE would have made a southern transcon RI a horrible route. The profile maps of the EP&NE and the EP&SW show nice profiles with easy grades, albeit a few miles longer than the parallel SP route (and par for the course for RI<span class="smiley">[B)]</span>). </p><p>The question is, how would a transcon RI have made it from Tuscon to the coast and the Central Valley traffic base without inflicting further economic injury on itself?</p>
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