EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Twenty years ago the storied Rock Island Line, losing about $40 million annually, abandoned its railroad operations as part of a bankruptcy under § 77 of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898. See Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R., 363 I.C.C. 150 (1980). Free of its cash sinkhole, the Rock Island retired its debts and emerged from bankruptcy in 1984 as the Chicago Pacific Corporation, a holding company with more than $350 million...
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