Unusual imaginary mergers

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Post your unusual ideas for mergers of present day or fallen flag mergers here.
The more outrageous, the better!
One of mine:

Guilford Central. Guilford Rail System and Penn Central. They would need to buy a bit of track between them, and let it deteriorate before buisness of the new RR could start. :hehe: :eek:
 
MeowRailroad said:
Post your unusual ideas for mergers of present day or fallen flag mergers here.
The more outrageous, the better!
One of mine:

Guilford Central. Guilford Rail System and Penn Central. They would need to buy a bit of track between them, and let it deteriorate before buisness of the new RR could start. :hehe: :eek:
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Given that some of the present management at Guilford came from the Penn Central and are running Pan Am Railways, this isn't too far fetched. They've run Pan Am with the same shoddy maintenance on their lines as the PC did in their day!

John
 
I've recently been playing with the idea (model railroad-wise) of the Erie and Lackawanna merging about 20 years prior to the actual EL merger, and then spinning off traffic over the Erie main from Binghamton to Jersey City/Hoboken (with the model railroad focusing on Port Jervis to Suffern) to an Erie/EL-controlled subsidiary. Kinda silly, but it gives me a reason to have Erie steam running into the 1950s!

I also had another idea of the Erie buying parts of the NYO&W at the end in 1957. I did a rather quick logo a while ago. And then I did something similar with the Lehigh and Hudson River. And then I though of the Erie taking more of a control over the Susquehanna.

I think I see a future reskinning project or two in my future...

~James
 
Thomas_The_Tank100 said:
I've recently been playing with the idea (model railroad-wise) of the Erie and Lackawanna merging about 20 years prior to the actual EL merger, and then spinning off traffic over the Erie main from Binghamton to Jersey City/Hoboken (with the model railroad focusing on Port Jervis to Suffern) to an Erie/EL-controlled subsidiary. Kinda silly, but it gives me a reason to have Erie steam running into the 1950s!

I also had another idea of the Erie buying parts of the NYO&W at the end in 1957. I did a rather quick logo a while ago. And then I did something similar with the Lehigh and Hudson River. And then I though of the Erie taking more of a control over the Susquehanna.

I think I see a future reskinning project or two in my future...

~James
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Well James you aren't too far off regarding the Susie-Q, Erie and NYO&W. The lines were once very, very much intertwined with the same owner and the NYS&W was part of the Erie at one point in its life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Susquehanna_and_Western_Railway

Interestingly though, I wonder what would have happened if the NYO&W hadn't succumbed in the late 1950s, and how much would have remained operational today. Probably not a lot because Conrail made sure of that with the Erie Lackawanna, New Haven, L&NE, L&HR, and the other lines in the region.

John
 
What if BN and SP had merged instead of UP and SP? BNSP? I wonder what colors we'd see.... Green with bloody noses??
 
Enzo1 said:
What if BN and SP had merged instead of UP and SP? BNSP? I wonder what colors we'd see.... Green with bloody noses??
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That would be an interesting combination. I wonder too if the BN division could use the old GN/NP blue instead.

The routing though would be interesting because the old Santa Fe would still be there as it is via the Hereford Sub and Clovis while the SP would utilize it's own route through Tucumcari, and perhaps make use of the old Rock Island route as well up to Amarillo.

John
 
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