Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-29
PLANS. TO MERGE
RAILWAYS Of j. S.
into 19 SYSTEMS
II. C.. C.. Announces General
Scheme Of Consol-
idations.
WOULD ATTACH SMALL
LINES TO BIC ROADS
Hearings to BE Called on
Proposal Soon in Wash
ington.
FIitGINIAN WITH TIE c. d o.
H., +. md l.. and Norfolk Southern
Are Assigned with Atlantic
Coast Line Group.
WOULD ATTACH SMALL
LINES TO BIG ROADS
WITH TIE c. d o.
H. +. nnd i. and Norfolk southern
Are Assigned with Atlantic
Coast Line Group.
IBy Associated Press. !

WASHlNGTON, Sept ga tenta-
tive plan for consolidation OF all ma
oor American railroads into nineteen
great competing systems wan an
nounccd today by the Interstate Com
mcrcc Commission.
Tho proposed combination. au,ho-
riZed under the TRANSPORTATION act.
liz designed to remove ,wc:iknesscs in
the national railroad system shown
by the operation Of the rate making
power "r the commission. AMI To cf
feet rcadjustmcn, or terminal and
other subsidiary facilities with re-
suitant economy in operation and de-
livery OF shipments.
Weak lines which have shown their
inability To live" under rate schcd-
uics profitable to stronger roads.
would. under the plan, be attached to
systems more advantageousiy stu
htcd. but ii WAS announced tha, in
every case the effort was made TO
maintain the independence Of exist
ing strong systems.
Hold Hearings soon.
Hearings viii be called soon by the
commission for the purpose OF dis
cussng tho proposed consultations.
Since, under the law. no plan can be
adopted which has not been given the
approval of the Individual lines af-
fectcd rs we'll an that OF the COM
mission, II waa expected that discus
sion would be- prolonged and that q
number OF notifications from the plan
made public today would he sug-
gcstcd.
I'VE have soUGht TO minimize dis
Incmbcrmcnt OF existing lines and
systems" the commissions announce
mcnt said. This tentative plan is
put forward In order To elicit a fun
record upon which the plan ultimate
ly adopted can rest and without pre-
judgement
consolidation Proposed.
The following consolidated systems
are proposed by the commission:
No. !. New York Central. includ-
ing the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chi
cage and ST, Louis: Monongahela, Bos-
ton and Maine: Bangor and Aroostook
and others.
No. .. Pennsylvania, including To-
lcdo, Peoria ANA Western; Long
Island. MononEaheln. as an alterna-
tive TO the inclusion or that road in
tho New York Central System and
others.
No. 3. Baltimore ana Ohio. Read
ing. New York, New Haven and Hart
ford. Lehlgh and Hudson ana others.
No. 4. Chicago and Erie, Delaware,
I.ackawanna and Western; Bcsscm.r
and Lake Erie. Wabash lines east OF
the Missouri. and others.
No. >. Iehigh Valley. New York,
Chicago and St Louis; Pittsburgh
and West Virginia and others.
No. 6. Perc Marquette, Ann Arbor
and others.
No. Z. New York. New Haven and
Hartford, Boston and Maine. Bangor
and Aroostook, I.ehigh and Hudson
River, all of these being altcrna-
lively to be taken into other systems
Tho commission here proposed q
variation indicated rs System No
IA, or New EnglandGTeat Lakes
consolidation, which would include
tho roads given in No. Z. the Della
ware and Hudson. the Delaware
falo. Rochester and Pittsburgh and
others.
Puts vIreininn With C. & q.
No. s. Chesapeake and Ohio, Hook
ing Valley. and Virginian.
No. 0. Norfolk and Western. To-
ledo and Ohio Central. and others.
No. 10 Southern. New Orleans
Great Northern and Alabama and
vicksburg.
No. II. Atlantic Coast Line. Nor
folk Southern, Florida East Coast
Mississippi Central. Carolina. Clinch-
field and Ohio. and Louisville and
oth
No. IL. Illinois Central. Seaboard
Air Line, Carolina, Clinchficld and
Ohio, alternatively, and others.
No. 13. Union Pacific lines, Chicago
Northwestern, Wabash lines west OF
the Missouri. and others.
G. u. & q. With Northern Pacific.
No. II. Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy. Northern Pacific. Spokane
Portland and Seattle. and others.
No. Is. Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul. Great Northern. and others
No. 16. Atchison. Topeka and Santa
Fc. Colorado and Denver and R!c
Grande. Western Pacific. and others.
No. u. Southern Pacific Company
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific. T.
Paso and Southwestern. Vicltsburg
Shreveport md PnciNc. and others.
No. 1S. st. I4ouis-San Francisco
st. Louis Northwestern. Chicago nnd
Alton, Missouri. Kansas and Texas
San Antonio, UvaIde and Gulf nnt
others.
No. 10. Chicago and Eastern Hi.
nois, Missouri Pacific, Texas md PA.
oinc Gulf const Limos and others.
Tho commission noted that Cana.
; dian railroad subsidiaries, such a,
Giro Minneapolis. st. Paul and seui,
f0onflausd on Page II, Col. x5