99.99% a CSX-Canadian Pacific merger will not happen but then again the Cubs won the World Series and your new President was a "HUGE" surprise.
So lets have some fun and give this newly merged entity a name, because if it happens that will need to be done anyway.
To me CSX is the railroad that doesn't want anyone to know what they are. Railroaders and Railfans know what CSX means and stands for, Chessie/Seaboard multiplied, or something like that, but no one else knows that. Canadian Pacific goes back a long way, is revered, unified and actually saved the Dominion of Canada. At one time it really did "Span the World". Contrary to falsely held and boneheaded belief it is not government owned...it has always been a private company with widely held stock throughout the world. Little old ladies everywhere own Canadian Pacific stock and always have.
So we have a tradional, old, loved, revered national and international icon coming together with a company that has abandoned all of that and is a ...what?..a CSX.
My own path is that you totally start new, abandon both identities and proclaim something that reflects the hopes of a new millennium, a name that is recognizable as a railroad but totally new in approach.
What say you? Any suggestions?
Edmonton, Hagerstown & Hialeah
Abbreviated EHH
Wow-...that about covers the territory nicely ...and feeds ego's..genius!
Remember "Family Lines"? Canada is cold, Florida is hot, so how about the Frozen Hot Lines?
If CP and NS didn't make it, why would CP and CSX do so? Such a merger is a cool idea, but destined for a flaming hot place in my opinion ...
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Canada, Chesapeake and Ohio
Peter
History Lesson;
As chalked on a forty foot plain bearing box car pre CP Rail, Pre EHH.
CPSX
Thank You.
When Esso (nee Standard Oil) wanted to rebrand, they literally fired up what amounted to a random letter generator. The final result (picked by people, from what the computer created) was Exxon.
On the outside (way outside) chance such a merger were to happen, and given the tendency of corporations to go with such cryptic monikers, I suspect you could throw some Scrabble tiles in the air and come up with something suitable...
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how about CSX Eh?
stay safe
Joe
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CSUX?(Sorry man- the made me do it.)
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Murphy Siding CSUX?(Sorry man- the made me do it.)
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I have a marketing slogan as well:
"We used to have customers but then found we didn't need them"
Penn Central & Western would be my second choice.
Penn Central and Western, What a hoot!
Can-Am...turn it around Am-Can. Appease our larger partner and it actually says something!
JoeKohhow about CSX Eh?
CSXA - love the hidden joke...
Imagine trying to explain it to your friends as you chuckle at a passing train....
In keeping with the ambiguity of "we'll call it 'Pull' for me and 'man' for you" we could have C for Canadian, C for Chessie (or whatever), and the Super C name (alas likely to be litigated by BNSF) and call it SuperCC. (Read out loud as SuperSeize, with the herald one-half the CP 'mark' and one-half broken dish -- or better yet, put the sleeping cat back in as an apropos foil to NS's Thoroughbred?)
Reporting mark: CCR (also as in Creedence Clearwater Revival?)
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
The route of the beaver.
Got reporting marks for that?
Norm
CMStPnP ScrapRail I have a marketing slogan as well: "We used to have customers but then found we didn't need them" Penn Central & Western would be my second choice.
Reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek business quote I once heard...
"If it wasn't for the damn customers we could run this business any way we wanted to!"
Firelock76Reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek business quote I once heard... "If it wasn't for the damn customers we could run this business any way we wanted to!"
Sounds like CP under Hunter Harrison. The decline in online customers on the former Milwaukee Road and for that matter the former locals that used to run up and down the line serving them........ is nothing short of breath taking. Just within the time frame CP took over they had to have shed a good $200-300 million in Wisconsin business alone........if not more. When new business opportunities arise seems like only CN, W&S and UP make a serious bid for it. CP seems to be fast asleep.
I would not be surprised at all if UP purchased CP and gave BNSF a real run for the money.
I would not be surprised at all if UP purchased CP at a bargain basement price in a few years and gave BNSF a real run for the money.
schlimm Reporting mark: CCR (also as in Creedence Clearwater Revival?)
Like it! Their theme song could be "Bad Moon On the Rise".
The name of the new entity could be Canada & Southeastern. Kind of fits - eastern U.S. is southeast from Canada. Reporting marks could be CSER.
Norm48327 The route of the beaver. Got reporting marks for that?
BVER?
NGH/Not Gonna Happen
Miami, Red Deer, & Western
John Galt..Errrrrr, I mean Hunter Harrison Line
"I Often Dream of Trains"-From the Album of the Same Name by Robyn Hitchcock
Reverse Canadian Pacific and become PC?
NS might have an issue with that. Canada & South Eastern or CSE. It will be interesting to see where EHH does land.
Dan
mudchicken NGH/Not Gonna Happen
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