Southern Pacific Transportation Company
In the early 1980s, after Philip Anschutz's Anschutz Corporation took RGI over and operated RGI as a subsidiary, they arranged the take over of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, where new head Robert Krebs (of the SPTC's old parent Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation) had recently succeeded Benjamin Biaggini. When the Interstate Commerce Commission denied permission to merge the respective companies' railroad subsidiaries as the Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad, the merged holding company, which retained both companies' non-rail interests, while selling the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to Rio Grande Industries.