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Mac - Fact: Of the Hill Lines, it was only GN that got the fancy realignments and the fancy long tunnels to make it's profile the best of the PNW lines. NP needed a new tunnel under Stampede (and BNSF still needs such), didn't get it. NP explored a two tunnel shortcut between St. Regis and Spokane via Lookout and Fourth of July passes. Didn't get it. CB&Q lines though Wyoming were little more than poor cousins to C&NW's Cowboy Line. And NP and GN had a preference for the MIlwaukee over CB&Q for the Chicago connection, leaving CB&Q shorthanded. So what's so hard to comprehend about Hill treating NP and CB&Q poorly? randyaj - Actually, GN is one of my all time favorites. If you had read any of my posts about the GN, you could have discerned that. That being said, why should I smother the forum with undue GN adulation, when the facts are that the original GN alignments were very poorly located, and it took decades and a massive amount of ca***o make the GN "the best profile of the PNW railroads" (after Hill's death)? If you think about it, Hill built the GN in stages, taking his time about it so as to not bleed the railroad short of cash. Good strategy. But, if he had that much time to plan ahead, why did he choose so poorly aka Haskells Pass, Stevens Pass, et al? Every GN fan seems to think that finding Marias Pass automatically made the GN the premier PNW railroad, yet even Marias Pass needed a helper district on the westside.
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