PC: what if...?

[BGXX32A@xxxxxxxxxxx (MR PETER A KING)]

>If you wanted to get REAL technical, you could go back to the 50's 
when 
>NYC and C&O were talking merger (up to the time Robert Young died), 
and 
>fantasize about what would have happened if THAT had taken place (my 

>guess is that N&W and PRR would have linked up, and everybody else 
in the 
>northeast would have eventually joined either of the two bigger 
roads or 
>B&O...if all that had happened, there would have been no PC OR 
Conrail, 
>and WE wouldn't have had any fun, but I digress...).

I prefer to think that the NYC and C&O would have been joined by N&W. 
This, of course, would have been called the New York, Ohio and 
Western (NYO&W).

Peter King