OCR Text |
Show PRINCIPAL LINES 10 Ji FORCES RAILWAYS TO FORM NINETEEN GREAT SYSTEM8 WHICH WILL COVER ENTIRE U. 8. Union Pacific Lines In New Group Consolidation of Large Roads With Small Will Assist In Handling Business Washington The Interstate comorce commission announced Wodnesdaj tentative plaus for the consolidation of all major railroads of the United States Into ulnoteen systems and gave notleo that hea.-lngs would bo called on the project In the noar futuro. The proposed consolidation was authorized by tho transportation act. In the main, the plan proposed by the eomnilsslcn Is that draftod undor Its direction by Professor William .. Itlpley, Harvard University, but some variations were' made Tho cdmmlsslon said that, while all or the larger or class 1 railroads had been included In the makeup or its schedule, a number of class 2 and class !l lines Tho following consolidated systems are proposed by the commission : No. 1, New York Central, Including the Clovelund, Cincinnati, Chllcago nnd St. Louis, Monongnhola, Hoston & Maine, Hunger and ArrooBtoos No. 'J, Pennsylvania, Including To ledo, Peoria and Western j Long Island, Monongahela as an alternative to I lie Inclusion or that road In tho New York Central sstem, and others. No. :i. Haltlmore A. Ohio; Iteudliu, New Haven & Hartford, Udilgh & Hudson and others. No. l, Chicago & F.rle, Deleware, Lackawanna St -Western, Uessemer V Uike Frle, Wabash lines east of tii Missouri, and others. No. 0, Lehigh Vnlley, New York, Chi cage & St. Louis; Pittsburg & West Virginia, and others. No. 7, New York, New Haven V Hartford, Hoston & Maine, Hangor & Aroo-took, Lehigh & Hudson Itiver, all of these being alternatively to be taken Into other sj stems. No. 8, Chesapeake Ic Ohio, Hocking Valley A Virginian. No. 0, Norfolk J. Western, Toledo & Ohio Cental, and others. No. 10, Southern, New Orleans. Creat Northern, and Alabama Vlck-burg. Vlck-burg. No. 11, Atlantic Const Line, Norfolk b'outliurn, Flotldu Fast Const, Mississippi Mis-sissippi Central, Louisville & Nash-illle, Nash-illle, nnd others. No. IS, Illinois Central, Seaboard Airline, Carolina, Cllnihfleld & Ohio. 4iul others. No. i:i. Colon Pacific lines, Chicago Northwestern, Wabash lines west of the MIsKnurl and others. No. U, Chicago, Partington & Quln-eyj Quln-eyj Northern Pacific, Spokane, Port-hind Port-hind A Seattle, and others. No. 15, Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul ; Ureal Northern, and others. |