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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G I find it interesting that many mourn the passing of the Milwaukee Road but so few mourn the loss of half the trackage of Conrail when it decided to please its shareholders. [/quote] I'll give several reasons 1. Conrail had a lot of redundant trackage - Milwaukee's PCE was just one line. 2. Even after the breakup of Conrail between NS and CSX, most areas of the Northeast still have at least two Class I's competing - the loss of the PCE resulted in a vast swath of the US falling into captive shipper status. 3 Milwaukee had the mountain electrification, the Little Joes et al - Conrail's electrification is still in place, and was mostly predicated for transit, not freight. 4. The Hiawatha symbol beats the corporate blue and "C" hands down.
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