Re: (erielack) Santa Fe interest in EL

[Ken <"lackawanna_@_iname.com">]

Wonder if the Santa Fe would have had the same reservations about the labor 
agreements/requirements that the C & O had when it thought about buying the 
E-L.


Ken B.


At 10:27 AM 6/4/00 -0400, "MDelvec952_@_aol.com" wrote:
>In a message dated 6/3/00 10:36:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, diamond folks
>were discussing:
>
> > > He claims that AT&SF wanted to purchase the Erie Lackawanna just before
> >  > the Conrail takeover in 1976. This would have created the first true
> >  > transcontinental railroad in the US. By this time, however, the EL was
> >  > committed to Conrail.
>
>I've actually talked to Santa Fe managers who were around when the merger
>with EL was being explored.  They recalled that soon after that had started
>the beginnings of the SP-SF merger had begun, and the Santa Fe execs jumped
>on that instead.  It wasn't the EL people who dropped the ball on EL Santa
>Fe.  I don't recall any mention of any official name proposals for the new
>company.  Suffice to say, had the ATSF and EL merged the EL would still be
>around and the Conrail story would have been quite different.
>
>Would the Phoebe Snow / Lake Cities have been renamed the E-L Capitan?
>
>                              ....Mike
>
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