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RE: (erielack) "ON TOPIC"

I am sort of loathe to add to this topic, as I thought the "monotony" topic line probably had been
applied to this thread, BUT:

It seems to me that when Gould was a factor in railroad history, he owned the ERIE and the MOPAC,
and he was trying to build a transcontinental . . . .

So it's not a new idea.

SGL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Njricky2_@_aol.com [mailto:Njricky2@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:24 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) "ON TOPIC"
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks for posting that.  I can say that I learned a lot from all that has
> been posted in the "what if" listings and think that while it's "dreaming", the
> content adds a lot of history, some of which I was not aware.  I've learned a
> lot.
> 
>  We've learned about the ICC and the various railroads' corporate histories
> and their strategies when "merger mania" came along all those years ago, EL
> obviously included.  I know a lot but did not know as much as what I found here,
> particularly the corporate mentality at that time.
> 
> There have been many "what if" discussions over the years, but this has
> offered more than those in the past.  I honestly never thought about a combination
> of MP-EL to form a competitive system.  That never crossed my mind..
> 
> The more we talk about "what if", the more we learn about history and how
> their minds thought.  We look at things in hindsight but they lived it.
> 
> While I understand that the "what if" topics are not necessarily directly
> EL-oriented, I have to say that the information provided by everyone sparked my
> interest into doing more research on corporate history and the various
> possibilites that could have been but never came to life. The exchange took me much
> farther along than just the possibility of Erie-Santa Fe or NKP-DL&W or any
> other combinations that have been discussed in the past.
> 
> What I would like to learn more about in the "what if" scenario is how EL
> management felt about what faced them.  We know they saw the writing on the wall
> but from what's been presented, they didn't appear to have been very
> aggressive.
> 
> Were they or not?  If they were, how so?  Did EL management only consider
> inclusion or did they wait too long to explore other possibilities?  Did EL
> management ever go on the offensive?
> 
> Contact me off-list as I'm interested in further exploring "what if".  Please
> put "What If" in the subject matter.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Rick
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