The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-28
CONSOLIDATION
OF MAJOR rail-
ROADS PLANNED
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Announces a
Tentative Plan
for Changes
ALL ROADS IN u. S.
INTO NINE SYSTEMS
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION AU.
THORIZED BY THE TRANSPOR-
TATION ACT; HEARINGS SOON
ON PROJECT

AhAiON ACI; HEARlNGS SOON
ON PROJECT
Washington. Sept. 2S.-The inter.
state commerce commission announced
today tentative plans for the consolida-
ton of all major railroads of the
United States into nine systems and
gave notice that hearings would be
called on the project in the near fu.
ture. The proposed construction was
authorized by the transportation act.
In the main, the plan proposed by
Inc commission is that drafted under
Its direction by Professor VIM. z.
Ripley, Of Harvard university, but
some variations were made. The com.
mission said that while all of the
larger or class one railroads had been
included in the makeup of its sche-
dule, a number Of class two and class
three lines had also been covered. The
following consolidated systems are
by the commission:
No. New York Central, including
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
st. Louis; Monongaheiia, Boston and
Maine; Bangor and Aroostook, and
others.
No. 2-Pennsylvania, including To.
ledo, Peoria and WESTERN Long Is
land, Monongaheia, as an alterna-
tion to the inclusion of that road in
the New York Central systems and
others.
No. 3-Baltimore and Ohio Reading; |
New York, New Haven and Hart.
ford; Lehigh and Hudson and others
No. 4-Chicago and Erie, Delaware. |
Lackawanna and Western, Bessemer
and Lake Erie, Wabash lines east of |
the Missouri and others
No. 5--Lehigh Valley, New York, |
Chicago and st. Louis; Pittsburgh and |
West Virginia and others.
No. 6-Pere Marquette, Ann Arbor |
and others.
No. New York, New Haven and
Hartford; Boston and Maine: Bangor |
and Aroostook; Lehigh and Hudson
river, all of these being alternatively
TO be taken into other systems.
No. S-Chesapeake and Ohio; Hook.
ing Valley and Virgnian.
No. s-Norfoik and Western, Toledo |
and Ohio, central and others.
No. 1O--Southern. New Orleans, |
Great Northern and Alabama, and |
Vicksburg.
No. 1l--Atlantlc Coast line; Nor.
folk Southern: Florida East Coast: |
Mississippi Central; Carolina, Clinch-
field and Ohio: and Louisville and |
Nashville. and others.
No. l2-Illinois Central Seaboard |
Airline: Carolina, Clinchfeld and |
Ohio; alternauvely and others.
No. lS-Union Pacific lines; Chicago |
Wabash lines, west of
the Missouri and others.
No. l4-Chicago. Burlington and |
Quincy; Spokane, Portland and Seat.
tle and others.
No. l5-Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul; Great Northern and others.
No. 16-Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe; Colorado and Southern; Denver
and Rio Grande: Western Pacific and
others.
No. s7-Sou,hern Pacific Company;
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific: I'll
Paso and Southwestern; Vicksburg.
and Pacific and others.
No. lS-St. Louis. San Francisco:
ST. Louis, Southwestern;f Chicago and
Alton; Missouri. Kansas and Texas:
San Antonio. Uvalde and Gulf and
others.
No. ls-Chicago and eastern Illinois;
Pacific; Gulf Coast lines
and others.
No Canadian railroad subsidiaries.
such as the Minneapolis. 81. Paul and
Sault Ste Marie. and the Central Yer.
mont had been eliminated from It's
and that water carriers
by railroads concerned Were
The step was taken under provisions
OF the transportation act which al.
lows the consolidation. u voluntary
with the railroad concerned. The pro-
posa,s now put forward by the com.
mission follow In the main a plan
prepared under It's direction by pro.
fosSor william z. Ripley of Harvard.
The commissions proposed ~ sys'
TENS. as outlined today, provide for
retention of the competitive arrange
ment of transportation lines. giving
most sections Of the country access
to two or moro OF the great routes
devised. The principle followed in
making up the consultations was
that OF hitchlng weaker and less prof.
table roads TO more prosperous COM
peti,ors or connections at the same
time maintaining the identity very
largely OF existing great railroads. In
some cases. branch lines OF existing
roads are suggested for divorce from
present owners and attachment To
other systems. with rc.arrangement OF
terminal facilities.
Il Is expected that the plan with
arrangements which the
has suggested particularly 1
with reference TO New England. will 4
be under consideration and argument
FOR prolonged period. since perinis.
sion OF the commission and consent
of the railroads is required 10 every |
detail before II can be put into op.
Grafton.
The voluntary consolidation plan
was adopted by congress as pos.
sible means of facilitating the opera.
iion of the American transportation
system.