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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MichaelSol Milwaukee Road's system-wide gross freight revenue per mile was $48,000 per mile. Rock Isand's was $56,900 per mile. I don't have BN figures right in front of me right now, but I recall they were approximately $70-75,000 per mile. Milwaukee lines, Washington Division (Idaho, Washington, Oregon), in 1977 were generating $100,427 gross revenue per mile of line. Pretty good stuff for a broken down railroad. [/quote] Holy flyin' boxcabs! I had heard at about that time, in 1977, the Olympic Branch was generating most of the revenue for the railroad. I'm sure the person meant, or I should have understood, that it was really the Coast Division and Idaho Division. He was associated with the railroad, IIRC. Also, how did the Rocky Mountain Division compare to the rest of the railroad in terms of revenue generation? [quote]QUOTE: That was the strength of Milwaukee's historic long-haul position on the Pacific Coast Extension. As one assistant VP--Planning remarked: "“Milwaukee Road had in excess of 76% of the Port of Seattle’s business. It had mail, it had Toyotas, it had almost all the domestic auto business westbound. It had the long ticket items we needed to build on that today are what railroads are all about." William Brodsky, President, Montana Rail Link. Interview by Jim Scribbins, “S.O.R.E.” Milwaukee Railroader, First Quarter, 1994, p. 11. It is notable that, without Lines West, Milwaukee Road system [that is, Lines East] average dropped to $39,763 revenue per mile of line, significantly below that of the Rock Island. About one-third that of the Washington Division. [/quote] All the more reason for me to grind my teeth at its demise.[:(!] The Coast and Idaho divisions were the money-makers of the railroad (not to mention, IMHO, the most interesting, along with the western half of the Rocky Mountain Division)! Dare I say that the wrong half of the railroad was truncated? Could MILW have terminated in Minneapolis, dumped most of its granger personality, and formed in essence a transcon partnership with the Soo or C&NW? Would it have been feasible, Michael?
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