Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1921-10-05
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
ICED 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
its direction by Prof. William u. Rip
ley, Harvard university, but some
variations were made.
The commission said that while all
of the larger or class l railroads had
been included I'm the makeup of its
schedule, a number of class ? and class
3 lines had also been covered.
List Of Systems Included.
The following consolidated systems
are proposed by the commission:
No. /. New York Central, including
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago x
ST. Louis; Monongahela; Boston x
Maine; Bangor X Aroostook, and
others.
No. =. Pennsylvania. including To
ledo. Peoria < Western; Long Island,
Monongahela, as an alternative TO the
inclusion Of that road in the New
York Central system, and others.
No. 3. Baltimore 4 Ohio; Reading;
New York. New Haven & Hartford;
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No. 4. Chicago x Erie; Delaware,
Lackawanna x Western: Bessemer Il
Lake Erie; Wabash lines east Of the
Missouri. and others.
No. :. Lehigh Valley. New York,
Chicago x st. Louis; Pittsburgh &
West Virginia. and others.
No. o. Pere Marquette, Ann Arbor,
and others.
No. Z. New York, New Haven x
Hartford; Boston X Maine; Bangor &
Aroostook; Lehigh 4 Hudson River,
MI Of these being alternativeIy 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 CONSOLE
datiOn. which would include the roads
given In No. Z, the Delaware 4 Hud-
son, the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, the Buffalo, Rochester X
Pittsburgh, and others.
No. s. Chesapeake & Ohio; Hook
ing Valley. and Virginian.
No. o. Norfolk & Western, Toledo
a Ohio Central. and others.
No 10. Southern, New Orleans,
Great Northern and Alabama & Vicks-
burg.
No. IL. Atlantic Coast Line. Nor
folk Southern, Florida East Coast,
Mississippi Central, Carolina, Cllnch-
field and Ohio. and Louisville x Nash
Vile. and others.
No. L.. Illinois Central SeabOard
Airline. Carolina, Cllnchfield x Ohio,
alternatively. and others.
No. Is. Union Pacific Lines; Chica-
20 4 Northwestern. Wabash Lines
west of the Missouri, and others.
No. H. Chicago. Burlington &
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Portland 4 Seattle, and others.
No. II. Chicago. Milwaukee & ST.
Paul: Great Northern. and others.
No. 16. Atchison. Topeka 4 Santa
Fe: Colorado 4 Southern; Denver &
Rio Grande: Western Pacific, and 9th
erS.
No. II. Southern Pacific company;
Chicago Rock Island x Pacific; III
Paso 4 Southwestern Vicksburg,
Shreveport 4 Pacific. and others.
No. Is. st. Louis-San Francisco; ST.
Louis Southwestern Chicago & Al
ton: Missouri Kansas & Texas; San
Antonio: Uvalde & Gulf. and others.
No. 10. Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Missouri Pacific: Texas x Pacific:
Gulf Coast Lines. and others.
The commission noted that Canadian
railroad subsidiaries. such as the Min
neapolis. 81. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
and the Central Vermont, had been
eliminated from its consolidation and
that water carriers where controlled