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What if the UP actually got its share of Rock Island in the 1960's?
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[quote user="Cris_261"] <P>[quote user="kenneo"]My personal opinion would have been to split up the ROCK as the UP and the SP wanted to do, letting the SP have the Denver line. Then merge the DRGW and MILW into that "new" SP, and the way the balance of the mergers have come up in history, that would have made a strong three railroad system in the West. Almost everywhere West would have been served by everyone West.[/quote]</P> <P>Interesting. Was RI's Denver line direct enough to meet the competition?</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>For Chicago-Denver traffic Rock Island had a fine location, competitive with CB&Q and UP-C&NW. But west of Denver the Rio Grande was not competitive with UP-WP (or Santa Fe).</P> <P>Nothing's perfect.</P> <P>Try this for a reasonably balanced arrangement:</P> <P>CB&Q, NP, GN, SP&S, D&RGW, SP, SSW, Rock Island-South</P> <P>UP, WP, MP, T&P, Rock Island-North</P> <P>AT&SF, MILW, SLSF</P> <P>You could put MKT, C&NW, and KCS into any of these and abandon the duplication.</P> <P>Oh well.</P> <P>S. Hadid</P>
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