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Title: Southern Ry. complaints about the Family Lines
Post by: Stew Winstandley on July 22, 2012, 10:34:50 pm

Group,

This is from page 150 of Richard Saunders, Jr.'s book "Main Lines  Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002":

"Southern was stunned by the announcement of CSX. It had already declared war on Family Lines by lodging a formal complaint with the ICC, alleging that Family Lines increased its ownership of the L&N from 30% to 100% without formal approval. Now, as a price for a CSX consolidation, it demanded the former Monon, having previously passed up that chance to reach Chicago."

Stew

Title: Re: Southern Ry. complaints about the Family Lines
Post by: Tim T Swan on July 30, 2012, 07:47:18 pm

Oh, if only SOU had suceeded in this, Stew.  Then we'd being seeing an NS Heritage unit resplendent in black/gold or even in red'white/gray.  And maybe the south end would still be in business!   /Tim.