The New York herald., 1921-08-30
20 LINES PROPOSED
FOR RAIL GROUPING
Tentative Ripley Scheme Is
Offered to Public by Com
merce Commission.
SOME ARE ALTERNATIVE
New England Systems Admit
of Various Routings I'm
der Consolidation.
SOME ARE ALTERNATIVE
Special Despatch to THE NEW YonK HERALD,

Commence Commission. and public hear
ings will be held on II before 1t is for
mally adopted. The plan is based upon
a report by Prof. w. T. Ripley OF Har-
ward.
Twenty possible railroad systems
some of which are alternative. are out
lined. Some railroads are shown as
included in more than one system. The
Erie, for instance, is shown as the nu-
cleus of one system with the d. and H,
Lackawanna and Wabash lines east OF
the Missouri, and also as a part of the
Nickel Plate and Lehigh Valley system
The New Haven is shown ir the B. and
o. system and the Boston and Albany in
the New York Central system. but there
is also New England system including
all but the B. and A.
Instead of transcontinental system
the Northern Pacific and Burlington are
grouped, the Great Northern and the ST.
Paul, the Southern Pacific and the Rock
Island, and the Union Pacific and the
Chicago Northwestern.
Detailed Outline OF Plan.
An outline of the suggested plan fol-
lows:
No /. New York Central system
New York Central lines. except Lake
Erie and Western. Toledo and Ohio Cen
tral. GAINESVILLE and Western, Kanawha
and Michigan and Indiana Harbor Belt
Western Maryland, Fonda, Johnstowa
and Gloversville. Lake Erie and Pitts
burgh. Pittsburgh. CHARTERS and Yough-
iogheny Monongahela, Boston and
Maine. Maine Central, Bangor and
Aroostook. Note-Boston and Maine,
Maine Central and Bangor and Aroos-
took may be included in system No z
or in IA Prof. Ripley rejects trunk
line treatment of the New England
roads. but the commission presents It
alternatively to bring out discussion.
No. 2. Pennsylvania system-Pennsy,-
vania, Panhandle. Toledo, Peoria and
Lake Erie and Pittsburgh, Central In
diana, Pittsburgh, CHARTERS and Yough-
iogheny. Monongahela.
NO. 3. Baltimore and Ohio system
Baltimore and Ohio, Reading. Central of
New Jersey Cincinnati. indianapolis and
Western. Chicago, Indianapolis and
Louisville, New York, New Haven and
Hartford. Central New England. Lehigh
and New England, Lehigh and Hudson.
Note-Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Ter
mlnal is reserved for consideration in
NO. 4. Erie systen-Erie, Delaware
and Hudson. Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western. Ulster and Delaware, Bessemer
and Lake Erie Buffalo and Susquehanna,
Pittsburgh and Shawmut, Pittsburgh,
Shawmut and Northern, Lorain, Ashland
and Southern, Wabash lines east of Mis-
souri, River
No. 5. Nickel Plate. Lehigh Valley sys-
ten-Lehigh Valley. New York, Chicago
and st. Louis, Toledo. ST. Louis and
Western. Detroit and Toledo Shore lines,
Lake Erie and Western, Wheeling and
Lake Erie, Pittsburgh and West vir-
ginia. Bessemer and Lake Erie.
No. s. Pere Marquette system: Pere
Marquette, Detroit and Mackinac, Ann
Arbor. Detroit, Toledo and Ironton !:
Boyne City. Gaylord and Alpena.
No. Z. New England system: New
Haven, Ontario and Western, Boston
and Maine, Maine Central. Bangor and
Aroostook. Lehigh and Hudson River,
Lehigh and New England.
No. IA. New England-Great Lakes
system: Same as above, with addition
of Delaware and Hudson. Lackawanna.
Ulster and Delaware Buffalo, Roches-
ter and Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh and
Shawmut. Pittsburgh. Shawmut and
Northern.
No s. Chesapeake and Ohio system /:
Chesapeake and Ohio Hooking Valley,
Virginian.
No. 3: Norfolk and Western system !:
Norfolk and Western. Toledo and Ohio
Central, Kanawha and Michigan.
No. 10. Southern sytem: Southern
Railway and affiliated lines, New Or
leans, Great Northern, Alabama and
Vicksburg.
No. II. Atlantic Coast Line-LouisvilIe
and Nashville system: Those two roads
and subsidiaries. Western Railway OF
Alabama. Richmond. Fredericksburg
and Potomac; Norfolk Southern; At
lanta. Birmingham and Atlantic: Win
ston-Salem Southbound, Roanoke to
Winston-Salem branch OF the Norfolk
and Western, Florida East Coast, Caro-
lima, Clinchfield and Ohio: Georgia and
Florida, Gulf, Mobile and Northern, Mis-
sissippi Central
No. 12. Illinois Central - Seaboard
system-fllnois Central. Seaboard Air
Line. branch Of Norfolk and Western
from Lynchburg, Va, to Durham. N G. :
Gulf and Ship Island Tennessee Cen
tral. Carolina. Clinchfield and Ohio.
TranscontinentnlL Lines.
No l3. Union Pacific North Western
system--Union Pacific. Chicago and
Northwestern. Lake Superior and Ish-
peming, Wabash lines west OF Missouri
River
No. IA. Burlington--Northern Pacific
system - Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy. Northern Pacific, Chicago, Great
Western, Minneapolis and ST. Louis,
Spokane, Portland and Seattle (Colo-
RADIO and Southern may be included In
system No. f6).
No Is. Milwaukee Great Northern
system-Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul. Great Northern, Duluth md Iron
I Range. Duluth. Missabe and Northern,
Green Bay and Western. Spokane. Port
land and Seattle, Butte, Anaconda and
I Pacific.
| No. 1s. Santa Fe system---AtchIson
Colorado and Southern, Denver and Rio
Grande. Western Pacific, Utah Railway
Northwestern Pacific. Nevada Northern
1 No. IL. Southern Pacific. Rock Island
system Southern Pacific. Nevada
| Northern. Chicago, Rock Island and Pa.
cific. Arizona and New Mexico. FL Pasc
and Southwestern, San Antonio and
Aransas Pass, Trinity and Brazos Val.
ley. Midland Valley, vicksburg. shreve.
port and Pacific and Chicago Peoria and
| St Louis.
| No. is. Frisco Katy Cotton Belt sys.
tem--St Louis-San Francisco, st. Joui,
| Southwestern, Louisiana Railway and
\ Navigation Company, Chicago and AL.
ton, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, Trinity
i and Brazos Valley, San Antonio Uvaldt
\ and Gulf. (Note---M. X. and r. may bt
\ Included in No. ~
No. 10. Chicago Missouri Pacific sys