{"id":6536,"date":"2011-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/2011\/01\/19\/a-railroad-quiz-remember-when-6\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T00:00:00","slug":"a-railroad-quiz-remember-when-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/a-railroad-quiz-remember-when-6\/","title":{"rendered":"A railroad quiz: Remember when?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
When we talk about Class I railroads (the largest of railroads with annual freight revenue of at least $378.8 million), most of us can name the carriers in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n
They are BNSF, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific — seven, in all.<\/p>\n
When some of our older heads signed on, back in the\u00a01960s, the list was quite\u00a0longer — and occasionally we see a couple of those names, barely visible, painted on\u00a0old boxcars or even an aged\u00a0yard locomotive.<\/p>\n
In fact, for rails beginning their careers in 1970, there was 58 separate Class I railroads — 51 more than today.<\/p>\n
Following is a list of those 58, with an explanation of their fate in parenthesis. How many do you recall?<\/p>\n
* Conrail was created by Congress to absorb bankrupt Penn Central. Conrail susequently was returned to the private sector and split apart — its separate portions acquired by CSX and Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we talk about Class I railroads (the largest of railroads with annual freight revenue of at least $378.8 million), most of us can name the carriers in a matter of seconds. They are BNSF, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific — seven, in all. When some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n