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Commuter train envy
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WATCO’S SHORTLINE START
In response to the cover feature, “he
Wide World of Watco” [pages 22-29, April],
I was part of Union Paciic’s team that
negotiated the sale contract with Dick
Webb at Watco for the South East Kansas
Railroad in 1986.
Ater Dick and I initially talked about a
possible sale of the former Missouri Paciic
Pittsburg branch, I made a visit to Watco’s
oices in Cofeyville, Kan. I remember
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ind him in a pile of splinters on the loor.
he sale of this line was indeed UP’s
irst efort in this area, and Dick had never
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