Re: PC: Speculative Modelling

["John B. Hammill" <jhammill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Osterhus wrote:
> 
> >
> >> [Assume subsidized passenger operations and bail out loan to PC in
> 1971]
> >>
> >> this worked and the PC survived.  Now, based upon these two major
> >> assumptions, model what a healthy PC would look like in 1998!
> >
> >C44-9W's in black and white worms hauling coalporters through central
> >PA.
> >
> >AMD103's in silver mist aluminum with black worms running the 20th
> Century
> >past Croton Harmon, NY.
> >
> >An Operation Lifesaver SD60 with PC logos...
> >
> >SD80 & 90 MAC's pulling strings of auto racks out of Detroit
> >
> >PC divests itself of the New Haven branch and we see a return of the
> >McGinnis paint to New England.  (Guilford doesn't exist in my dream
> world,
> >so the Red, Black and White FL9's would have "NH" on the side, not a
> big
> >"G" )
> >
> >And finally...
> >
> >Reading the newspapers about the proposed Penn Central takeover of
> >the failing CSX-NS merger.  :^)
> >
> >
> >Heck, we are fantasizing here, right?
> >
> >
> Suppose also that PC remained profitable, but Conrail took over
> everybody else (e.g. LV, Reading, CNJ, et al.).  What would happen then?
> Would PC be bidding on the remains of CR+CSX&NS?  Who knows, but it
> would make an interesting modelling scenario! Imagine ex-CR, NS,and CSX
> rolling stock with their logos replaced by PC worms!!!
> 
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	I like your "fantasy world", wish it was real. I remember the
	NYC, PRR, and the merger,takeover, bankruptcy, and trusteeship.

	Wish it had turned out as you fantasize!!
						jhammill -AT- bellsouth.net