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Re: (erielack) What shoulda been



Michael writes:

> The N&W  did not want to take the EL or the D&H, they were ordered to by 
> the
>ICC as a price for the approval of the N&W-NKP merger. The Dereco 
> >mechanism was to keep the EL and D&H at arm's length. The Penn Central's 
> >inclusion of the NYNH&H on January 1st, 1969, was similarly the result of 
>an >ICC order.  Since the ICC ordered it, it must have been OK.  The ICC, 
>after all, is

Mike -- Can you cite any evidence that the ICC ordered this on its own 
initiative or in an arbitrary and capricious manner, inventing these orders 
out of thin air?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie 


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