1958 - Rail Head Favors Consolidation of Lines

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Probably sounded crazy then.  Look at the railroad map now!  How about four 
major systems with a half dozen smaller regionals?

Sam Putney


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> Roanoke Times - March 13, 1958

> Rail Head Favors Consolidation of Lines

>

>   CHICAGO, March 12 (AP) - A railroad president said today he favors 

> consolidation of the nations 220,000 miles of railroads into a limited 

> number of large systems, "no more than 20 as a maximum and preferably a 

> much smaller number."

>   John W. Barringer, president of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Co. 

> said large-scale consolidations could save the country's railroads a 

> billion dollars a year.

>   Barringer told the annual meeting of the American Railway Engineering 

> Assn. that the carries need a billion dollars extra a year "to modernize 

> their plant and revitalize their services".

>   He said with the large-scale consolidations, the composition of two or 

> possible three railroads, could be provided at the principal centers, 

> except possibly in New England.

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> - Ron Davis, Roger Link

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