“A UP-NS merger would be the first time a single railroad company connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the U.S.”
One of the things that most irritated Richard J Daley of Chicago Was the fact that, in spite of his great power as mayor, he could never get the railroads to combine so that anyone could go, while at one station, from one railroad to another to get across the country. You always had to change stations. I’m 82 and spent the first eighteen years of my life in the Chicago area.
Those must have been golden years in Chicago back then,
Chicago became a major Midwestern city primarily because it was a rail hub where different railroads connected.