Re: (erielack) Special Day? What if?

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

The merged company could have been called "Wanna Nickel??"

I have WAY too much time to think while I'm driving the bus :-)

TAB

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From: <mdelvec952_@_aol.com>
To: <Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com>; <toddsyr@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>; <erielack-owner@lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Special Day? What if?


>I think the DL&W / NKP marriage would have had a chance.  Both roads were 
>well-run, well marketed, ran on good track believing in track speed.  It 
>would have been a viable competitor New York-to-Chicago for freight in an 
>era when intermodal were just getting started.  With the 20/20 hindsight of 
>history, I think Shoemaker was right in aiming toward an NKP merger; 
>factors outside of DL&W thought otherwise. Wabash might have been another 
>option (DL&W's next biggest interchange partner at Buffalo). 


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