[muawiyah]

I was involved in planning for the BMCs. The planning started under Elmer Klassen. A lot of the building started under Ben Bailer. Much of the construction was completed, postalization performed, and operations started under their successors over the next 10 years.

Ben and Elmer had formerly been employed by American Can Corp.

The only corrupt deal was when USPS agreed to take over a large parcel of land owned formerly by NYCentral, and at that time by Conrail.

The funds were then transferred to NYCentral bondholders to complete the sale of Conrail assets.

Now that was a circus. The day all the big dogs went by rail up to the site to sign the bill of sale the New Jersey state police decided to burn all the marijuana evidence for the previous half century UPWIND!

[milagro]

Thanks for that VERY interesting—and amusing!—bit of history. The main thing I remember about the BMC was how weird it was during Tour 1 when there were all these BMC containers moving around on rails with no one around. Always wondered if everything was being moved by a computer named HAL!