From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   On 7/8/2014 1:40 AM, Glen Labah wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Larry Sheldon  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 7/7/2014 6:52 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
   >>> .....getting even with the competition?   
   >>>   
   >>> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/07/tough-task-pulling-boei   
   g-fuselages-fro   
   >>> m-montana-river/   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> No connection with current, but that used to be an electric railroad.   
   >   
   >   
   > I don't think that area was ever electrified.  The Milwaukee Raod was   
   > further south, and is now a trail.   
   >   
   > This is the Milwaukee Road:   
   > http://www.fruitfromwashington.com/History/cmsp.htm   
   > Notice the non-Milwaukee Road line heading northwest from Missoula?   
   > That is an ex-Northern Pacific line, and I am fairly certain that is   
   > what line this was.   
   >   
      
   That's correct. MRL is all ex-Northern Pacific part of BN that was   
   divested to MRL by BN/BNSF. Don't remember exactly when that divestiture   
   happened, whether pre or post SF merger.   
      
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