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Bucyrus, I didn't say that the Alton was paying for the employee in the tower or for the maintenance.  But you wouldn't want the johnny-come-lately delaying your trains when you were there first! And that's why it was important in a race to be there first - you get to call the shots.  The RT&N had that problem with the C&A, even built an embankment to make the Alton think they would install a viaduct over the track, but in the middle of the night, the rails were cut and a crossing laid.  Cheaper to pay a man's wages than to constantly keep a bridge in repair. The C&A didn't like the competition or the nuisance but no road does. I got my paycheck from the GM&O (they bought the Alton just before I hired out);  l have no idea what the GM&O collected from the Santa Fe or what the CN now collects from BNSF. Art
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