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The "Surfboard" and it former agency have allowed the "merger mania" to get out of hand. With mergers come: loss of railroad jobs, towns that were once served by rail lossing that rail service, rail lines abandoned, and a great loss of regional pride. Local and regional dispatching centers were replaced by "national" dispatching centers that were out of touch with the local reality. Do mergers really improve anything at all? Look at Conrail. A railroad that made money and seemed to be well managed, now gone, and divided into 2 other railroads. One of them seems to be do ok, while the other one is failing miserably. In my opinion the country would have been better off had Conrail and Southern Pacific merged. Conrail might have lost its name but few, if any, railroad jobs would have been lost and most operations of Conrail would have continued as normal. That might have kept SP out of UP and UP would have sought either CSX or NS as a merger partner. Is UP too big for its own britches? Yes. Is BNSF too big for its own britches? Yes (However BNSF does seem to be doing a better job of managing its railroad than UP is doing.) In my opinion "merger mania" was a big mistake. It has created nothing but a monster which doesn't seem to know what the left hand is doing while the right hand is just "hanging around".
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