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CMO is the reporting marks for the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. Also called the Omaha Road, CMO was a long time subsidiary of the Chicago & North Western. It was formed as a corporation in 1880 and came under the control of the C&NW in 1882. The CMO was basically operated as part of the C&NW for the entirty of its existance. It was leased by the C&NW in 1957 virtually ending its existance. C&NW merged it out of existance in 1972. <br />UP uses the marks for freight cars so the don't fill up all of the UP numbers. They also still use the CNW, SP and MSTL marks which also all have the UP sheild on them.
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