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Re: Federal government vs. railroads, and pro-roads, back in the day (1960) |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Thu Aug 14 00:05:22 2014, in response to Re: Federal government vs. railroads, and pro-roads, back in the day (1960), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 13 23:42:27 2014. No the PRR, Erie Canal, B&O, and several others were given favors by the various governments from the get go. B&O paid zero tax in MD as long as it maintained Baltimore in the corporate name and HQ there. PRR had the PA gov't trying to obstruct B&O's extension toward Pittsbburgh. BTW GM's major investor early in the game was DuPont which in turn got all of the paint business for those cars and locomotives. |
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