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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tree68</i> <br /><br />[2c] Agreed, Union Pacific , being the one remaining unchanged name, deserves to stay, other sentiments notwithstanding. <br /> <br />Many railroads, large and small, never reached one or the other of the places in their name, even though the promoters certainly wanted investors to believe they eventually would. With today's wide ranging systems, a "place to place" name just doesn't cut it. You need a regional name. If the rumors of UP+CSX ever come to fruition, you're talking coast-to-coast (the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad?) <br /> <br />I've tried to think of a name for CSX, still drawing a blank. NS wasn't too far off until they took on CR. <br /> <br />BNSF is actually the amalgamation of three RR names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with some other mergers thrown in, I think. <br />[/quote]I don't think a UP+CSX should be called the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. People would think it's part of the Atlantic &Pacific Tea Company.
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