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[quote user="MichaelSol"]In 1904, no less a railroader than E.H. Harriman proposed, as a means of diverting the Milwaukee Road from building its own Pacific extension, a "toll" agreement, whereby Milwaukee could operate its own passenger and freight trains over Union Pacific lines. Not quite a trackage rights agreement, the agreement was drafted and executed by both railroads. For whatever reasons Milwaukee's headstrong president, Roswell Miller, was adverse to such arrangements, and the PCE construction went ahead.[/quote] Interesting.  Would this have been limited to the PNW line, or also include the LA-SL line? Also, if Milwaukee had wanted the option of constructing a separate transcon through the Northern Tier but still use the UP lines through Eastern Washington and the Columbia Gorge, would this have negated the proposed agreement?
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