Recommended Major Acquisitions in Industry Structure of Final System Plan

Details

• Alternative Title:
  USRA Final System Plan Map: Recommended Major Acquisitions in Industry Structure-Proposed Property Transfers and Trackage Rights, 1975
• Corporate Creators:
  United States Railway Association
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Abandonment Bankruptcy Bibliographies Economics Financing Maps Marketing Railroads Regional Planning Regional Railroads
• Resource Type:
  Map
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; New England ; West North Central States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States Railway Association
• Abstract:
  This color foldout map was prepared by the United States Railway Association in 1975 as an accompanying map to Final System Plan for Restructuring Railroads in the Northeast and Midwest Region Pursuant to the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Volume I, Parts I and II. Volume I expressly states that the property and trackage-rights acquisitions necessary to implement its recommendations are displayed on a color foldout map accompanying the report. The title, legend, and subject matter of the present sheet positively identify it as that map.
  
  The map presents the property transfers, operating rights, and carrier relationships proposed under the preferred Final System Plan structure. Its legend identifies proposed acquisitions by ConRail, Chessie, Delaware and Hudson, Norfolk and Western, Grand Trunk Western, Southern, and Amtrak. It also identifies connecting routes operated by existing carriers and distinguishes acquisitions of routes for through and local service from proposed trackage rights over newly acquired or existing routes. Following N&W's withdrawal from the proposed Erie Lackawanna acquisition, Chessie is shown acquiring most of the viable Erie Lackawanna freight routes east of Sterling, Ohio, including the principal corridors through Buffalo, Binghamton, and northern New Jersey, together with most Reading services and selected access to Central Railroad of New Jersey territory.
  
  The map also shows proposed Delaware and Hudson extensions intended to strengthen competitive access; Grand Trunk Western acquisitions in Michigan; selected Norfolk and Western additions; Amtrak acquisitions associated with passenger corridors; and Southern Railway's proposed acquisition of the Delmarva Peninsula lines and the Cape Charles-Norfolk car-float route.
  
  This map depicts the preferred Final System Plan allocation rather than the property conveyances ultimately completed. Implementation depended on acceptance by the acquiring solvent railroads and completion of the necessary agreements. The major Chessie and Southern transactions were not completed, and many properties shown as proposed acquisitions by those carriers were instead included in the larger Conrail startup system.
  
  The map is useful for studying the evolution from the Preliminary System Plan to the Final System Plan, the proposed allocation of bankrupt railroad assets among ConRail and solvent carriers, competitive-access policy, proposed trackage rights, and the differences between the preferred Final System Plan structure and the railroad network implemented in 1976.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  United States Railway Association. (1975). Recommended major acquisitions in industry structure of Final System Plan [Map accompanying Final System Plan, Volume I, Parts I and II].
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92970/dot_92970_DS1.pdf
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