Re: PC: Speculative Modelling

["Rob Carlo" <robcarlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
    I knew someone would mention CNJ...good choice!    So many famous
fallen flags over the past 30 years.   
            

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> From: bill <alcoman -AT- net.bluemoon.net>
> To: penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
> Cc: Gene.Fusco -AT- Symbios.com; penn-central@smellycat.com
> Subject: Re: PC: Speculative Modelling
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 11:12 PM
> 
> PC for Jersey????  What about CNJ????  B&A for Massachusetts (sp) 
> 
> 
> At 22:32 26-02-98 -0500, Rob Carlo wrote:
> >Yes, PC would leave New England,  however in reality the New Haven
colors
> >are alive and well here in CT.  We are blessed to have a Dept. of
> >Transportation which has adopted the New Haven paint scheme as it's own.
 
> >Units NH never owned as well as the celebrity FL-9's roam the state
proudly
> >painted and lettered New Haven.    Now, how about New York adopting NYC,
> >Pennsylvania- PRR,  New Jersey- PC???  
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Gene.Fusco -AT- Symbios.com
> >> To: penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
> >> Subject: Re: PC: Speculative Modelling
> >> Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 3:16 PM
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > [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?
> >
> >
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