Final System Plan

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Final System Plan is a comprehensive blueprint developed in the 1970s to restructure and consolidate failing northeastern U.S. railroads into the government-created Conrail system.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government report
railroad restructuring plan
transportation planning document
appliesTo bankrupt northeastern railroads
appliesToJurisdiction Northeastern United States NERFINISHED
author United States Railway Association NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
describedBySource United States federal transportation policy documents
describedRailroad Ann Arbor Railroad NERFINISHED
Boston and Maine Corporation NERFINISHED
Central Railroad of New Jersey NERFINISHED
Central Vermont Railway NERFINISHED
Delaware and Hudson Railway NERFINISHED
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad NERFINISHED
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad NERFINISHED
Erie Lackawanna Railway NERFINISHED
Lehigh Valley Railroad NERFINISHED
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway NERFINISHED
Maine Central Railroad NERFINISHED
New York Central Railroad NERFINISHED
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway NERFINISHED
Penn Central Transportation Company NERFINISHED
Pennsylvania Railroad NERFINISHED
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines NERFINISHED
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad NERFINISHED
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway NERFINISHED
Providence and Worcester Railroad NERFINISHED
Reading Company NERFINISHED
Western Maryland Railway NERFINISHED
determines compensation for rail property conveyance
rail lines to be excluded from Conrail
rail properties to be transferred to Conrail
effectiveDate 1976
fieldOfWork rail transport planning
transportation policy
follows Preliminary System Plan
goal create a financially self-sustaining freight railroad
restore viable rail service in the Northeast and Midwest
hasPart capital improvement program
financial projections for Conrail
labor impact analysis
list of lines to be abandoned
list of lines to be conveyed to Conrail
operating plan for Conrail
service level analysis
system map of included rail lines
implementedBy Consolidated Rail Corporation NERFINISHED
inception 1970s
language English
legalBasis Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 NERFINISHED
mainSubject Conrail NERFINISHED
railroad consolidation
railroad restructuring
publicationDate 1975
publisher United States Railway Association NERFINISHED

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