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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton So, I gather that you are saying that if the Milwaukee Board of Directors had paid attention to you, one of the US Big Four would be The Chicago, Milwaukee, StPaul and UNION Pacific. [/quote] Nope, it would have been the Chicago, Milwaukee & Northwestern. Remember that CNW was one of the suitors for the retrenched Milwaukee before the prize was awarded to SOO and CNW was digested by UP. If Milwaukee had managed to stay healthy with the prescription of Dr. Futuremodal, a marriage of CNW and CMStP&P would have been logical and perfunctory. Of course, by now the Milwaukee & Northwestern may well have been swallowed up by UP itself, unless the butterfly effect of a CM&N creation somehow caused the STB to wake up and realize that the West needs at least three Class I's to foster true competition, not the pathetic duopoly we're stuck with now. I can see it now: The Chicago, Milwaukee, Santa Fe & Northwestern (CMSF&N); The Burlington Southern Pacific (BSP); and good ol' Uncle Pete all by himself (but having digested WP, D&RGW, MP, RI and having been granted trackage rights on the I-5 corridor over the former SP). That lineup would allow all three Western Class I's to access all the major Pacific Coast ports. We're all familiar with monopolies and duopolies, but who ever heard of a triopoly? Now, the only way we can get the necessary three Western rail competitors is with Open Access.
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