Michael_Evans
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Does anyone ever think of what would happen if the PRR and NYC had never combined to form the Penn Central. For one there never would have been a huge bankruptcy or such a thing as standing derailments.
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Does anyone ever think of what would happen if the PRR and NYC had never combined to form the Penn Central. For one there never would have been a huge bankruptcy or such a thing as standing derailments.
The Federal Railroad Administration used to have a category in the 1970s called standing derailment. A train would be sitting there doing absolutely nothing and suddenly the track underneath it would crumble and the cars would derail, that’s how bad the deferred maintenance became.
N&W never merged with pennsy. it and southern created Norfolk Southern along with nkp, wabash, W&le. But since Conrail got split up, CSX soen't own pennsy Ns does. But really Ns is the N&W with a different name.I forget what caused the PC merger, but prior to it there was talk about a NYC & C&O merger, I believe a PRR & N&W one also. Similar to how Conrail was divided between CSX and NS. Always wondered what the companies that would come of these two mergers would be and it would have changed the current state of Class 1s.