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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Jan 25 21:48:30 2021, in response to Re: Amtrak in Southern Montana?, posted by Joe V on Mon Jan 25 19:42:28 2021. Better engineering rarely saves the smaller line--WM had a better climb between Cumberland and Connellsville but was torn up because B&O brass were not willing to move to the better route once Chessie was allowed to vote both B&O's 43 % and the 8 or so C&O had bought. In the PNW,a better SP&S line was torn up instead of the older NP.I won't dispute Erie west of Youngstown although I have always believed that the Chessie BOD f$%Ded up when they could have gotten the entire E-L for $1. Erie had wider/taller clearances for stacks and a better route fromOhio to the New Jersey ports than Chessie's B&O/Reading/CNJ. BN used E-L for container trains between Chicago and Jersey (pix of BN F45s on the E-L) beating the time on PC (competence beats merely a straighter route). |
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