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...neighboring town of Princeton, was founded in 1896 by a native of Princeton, Minn. Shortly after, Homer W. Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but he declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
...neighboring town of Princeton, was founded in 1896 by a native of Princeton, Minn. Shortly after, Homer W. Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but the declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
Later, college students working on the railroad during the summer named new outposts after Purdue, Vassar, Stanford and Yale, but only Harvard and Princeton remain...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal transportation board approved the formation of the country's largest railroad company Wednesday despite opponents' claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads, the combined UP-FP and the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, will control more than 90 percent of all freight traffic west of the Mississippi. Several smaller railroads had opposed the merger, and federal regulators had called the deal "the most anti-competitive rail merger in our history." But Union Pacific...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal transportation board approved the formation of the country's largest railroad company Wednesday despite opponents' claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads, the combined UP-FP and the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, will control more than 90 percent of all freight traffic west of the Mississippi. Several smaller railroads had opposed the merger, and federal regulators had called the deal "the most anti-competitive rail merger in our history." But Union Pacific...