The best book to really understand how we got from the PRR/N&W and NYC/C&O/B&O merger plans of the late 1950's to today is "The Men Who Loved Trains" by Rush Loving. While not the focus of the book there is still some useful EL material that puts it in the context of the whole Northeast railroad scene. It is really interesting that essentially after all the mergers, bankruptcies, and Conrail that we ended up with PRR/N&W (Norfolk Southern) and NYC/C&O/B&O (CSX) - just that no one thought that N&W and C&O would be the senior players. Tim On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Bill K. <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com> wrote: > FWIW, the LV was a special case, deemed unwanted by the PRR, but neither > C&O nor N&W found it desirable enough to include in either system in the > early 1960s. > > The original late 50s merger proposals were PRR + N&W and NYC + C&O/B&O, > I've forgotten now how that got sidetracked into Penn Central, but I don't > remember ever reading about a N&W/C&O/B&O combo. With the Nickel Plate and > Wabash (and EL?) that would have made for a road with as equally redundant > trackage as Penn Central had. Just a guess but I'm not sure that would have > been allowed to go through. > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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