Yes. But there's also a way of going about your business. It's kinda like the saying "it's not what you say, but how you say it." And besides, didn't the UP just get sued because they tried to force a train carrying over 28 cars of coal over a bridge, knowing it can't handle that and then used the heat as an excuse and then tried to remove the debris, damaging the evidence? And the worst part of it is, there were two elderly couple crushed under the rubble and they tried to do their own investigation. And the lawyer said, "how can we trust the UP with an investigation, when we can't even trust them operating a train over a bridge. They knew that it couldn't hold up to the task, yet ignored it. Plus trains aren't supposed to fly off tracks and crush innocent people." That says a lot about your company. That's even worse than the San Bernardino accident of 1989. And that was awful due to the explosions that followed. I understand why SP went under, but when employees of a company say negative things about the work environment(the UP in this case), that's usually not good.
Now I come off as a gunzel because I feel like something's missing. Two bankruptcies in 20 years seems to me the gov't helped. Although Harriman was able to do some cleaning up house though. And the SP-UP 1901-1913 legal battle was more about the UP wanting to get Central Pacific in order to compete with SP for traffic in California. So that's selfishness right there and the gov't new it because they didn't complain when SP and UP couldn't be together, but when the court ruled in favor of SP on Central Pacific, they threw a hissy fit. Besides CP was much smaller than UP and only operated on a single mainline from Sacramento to Promontory Point, Utah, and was a subsidiary at the time if I recall correctly. And they were under complete control of SP, and not separate like SP-DRGW. Plus Harriman bought out SP and decided to keep both railroads under his name and since he owned both, decided to make them partners. I think that's where the issue was with the gov't wanting to jar both of them a loose. At least that's how it looked to me. Maybe I'm the only who feels like someone cheated and things were rigged. Which is probably what everybody is tense about.
Anyways, I need not to keep having threads closed over two railroads, one that doesn't even exist anymore, and another I could care less about. Too many arguments on this forum that don't even amount to a hill of beans. Let's keep this about the Manningham Subdivision and trains in general, not who's the better railroad or who's in the right and who's in the wrong please and thank you for getting back on topic. Besides this is fictional railroading, not prototypical.
