Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-09-30
MOVE To NE RICE
ALL BIG ROADS
Nineteen Great Rail Systems in
U. S. Is Plan.
SCHEME TO END DIFFICULTIES
Interstate Commerce Commission out
lines Consolidation of Major Lines
Proposed Plan Was Author
lied by Transportation Act.

Washington, Sept. 29.-The inter-
state commerce commission announced
tentative plans for the consolidation
of all major railroads of the United
States into 10 systems, and gave no
tice that hearings would be called on
the project in the near future.
The proposed consolidation was au-
thorized by the transportation act.
In the main, the plan proposed by the
commission is that drafted under It's
direction by Prof. William a. Ripley,
Harvard university, but some varia-
lions were made.
The commission said that while all
of the larger or class / railroads had
been included. in the makeup of its
schedule, number of class 2 and class
3 lines had also been covered.
List of Systems Included
The following consolidated systems
are proposed by the commission:
1. New York Central, including the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & st.
Louis; Monongahela Boston & Maine;
Bangor & Aroostook, and others.
No. 2-Pennsylvania, including To
ledo Peoria & Western; Long Island,
Monongahela, as al alternative to the
inclusion of that road in the New
York Central system, and others.
No. 3-Baltimore & Ohio; Reading;
New York, New Haven & Hartford;
Lehigh & Hudson, and others.
No. 4.-Chicago & Erie; Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western; Bessemer &
Lake Erie; Wabash lines east of the
Missouri, and others. ).
No. 5-Lehigh Valley, New York,
Chicago & st. Louis; Pittsburg s. West
Virginia. and others.
No. 6-Pere Marquette, Ann Arbor,
and others.
No. New York, New Haven &
Hartford; Boston & Maine; Bangor &
Aroostook Lehigh & Hudson River,
all of these being alternatiyely to be
taken into other systems.
New England-Lakes System.
The commission here proposed @
variation indicated as system No. IA,
or New England-Great Lakes consoli-
dalton, which would include the roads
given in No. Z, the Delaware & Hud-
son, the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western. the Buffalo. Rochester e
Pittsburg, and others.
No. S-Chesapeake & Ohio; Hook
ing Valley, and Virginian.
No. 9-Norfolk & Western; Toledo
& Ohio Central, and others.
No. 10 Southern, New Orleans,
Great Northern and Alabama & Vicks-
burg.
List Chicago Lines.
No. 11--Atlantic Coast Line, Nor
folk Southern, Florida East Coast, Miss
Issippi Central, Carolina, Clinchfeld
and Ohio, and Louisville and Nash
vile and others.
No. 12-Illinois Central Seaboard
Airline, Carolina, Clinchfeld and Ohio,
alternatively, and others.
No. 14-Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy; Northern Pacific; Spokane,
Portland and Seattle. and others.
No. 15-Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul; Great Northern, and others,
Name More Chicago Roads.
No. 16-Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe; Colorado 4 Southern; Denver &
Rio Grande; Western Pacific, and 9TH
ers.
No 17-Southern Pacific company;
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; El
Paso & Southwestern; Vicksburg,
Shreveport Il Pacific, and others.
No. 1S-St Louis-San Francisco; st.
Louis Southwestern; Chicago & Al
ton; Missouri. Kansas & Texas; San
Antonio; Uvalde 4 Gulf, and others.
No. 19-Chicago & Eastern Illinois;
Missouri Pacific; Texas & Pacific; Gulf
Coast Lines, and others.
The commission noted that Canadian
railroad subsidiaries, such as the Min
neapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste Marie
and the Central Vermont, had been
eliminated from its consolidation and
that water carriers where controlled
hys railroads concerned were included