• Henry Crown Questions

  • Discussion relating to The Chicago & North Western, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), including mergers, acquisitions, and abandonments.
Discussion relating to The Chicago & North Western, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), including mergers, acquisitions, and abandonments.

Moderator: Komachi

  by CPF363
 
A few questions regarding Henry Crown.

1. What percentage of the Rock Island did Mr. Crown own?
2. Was he financially involved in any other railroads at the time that he owned the Rock Island?
3. When Downing Jenks was running the Rock Island in the early 1960s, he proposed a merger with MILW and the Missouri Pacific, did Crown derail both of these ideas?
  by Desertdweller
 
These are good questions, and ones I would like to have the answers to also.

I cannot blame him for trying to cut his losses.

Les