Re: PC: Speculative Modelling

[orville ingram <orvillei@xxxxxxxxx>]

---"John B. Hammill" <jhammill -AT- bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
Yeah, to bad that PC didn't survive or better yet to bad that the
former NYC, PRR, et. al.. didn't survive.  The different paint schemes
and different company attitudes would be interesting in todays world. 
But as a stockholder of NS I hope that NS can retain some of the
history of the former railroads.  I feel that NS will do good with
their portion of Conrail(ex-PC).  However, I hope that all can get
along and that basic grassroots support for The New Norfolk Southern
will grow and help the "new" railroad thrive and bring real growth to
railroading.

Orville Ingram

(a NS stockholder and die-hard NS fan) 
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