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KevinRC, I want to comment on your last point. Indeed CN has acquired IC, WC, BCR, and Great Lakes without any problems which shows that CN has good leaders that know what they're doing. <br />Now to NS. You have to remember that NS didn't just gobble up Conrail, they had to split it with CSX. Basically what happened was, Conrail had to be split into two companies NYC and PRR. NS had to acquire PRR. CSXT had to acquire NYC. Then, to operate Conrail as Conrail until June 1, 1999 they had to put it back together. While splitting it NS had to make sure that they did not acquire anything that would belong to CSX, and NS had to make sure and absorb only part of the massive Conrail computer system. NS and CSX also had to upgrade their route systems to prepare for Conrail. Finally on June 1, 1999 they had to split it once again. Then, I think sometime last year NS finally absorbed PRR. So CN getting IC, BCR, etc. was a piece of cake compared to NS getting it's part of Conrail. An NS executive once said that NW and SOU coming together to form NS back in 1982 was simple compared to the Conrail split. I read somewhere else where they said that the Conrail split was probably one of the hardest railroad mergers that's ever been implemented. <br />I don't think that you or anybody else can really compare NS to CN because the two railroads are built on two different ideas, in two different parts of the world CN mostly in Canada and NS in the Eastern U.S., and the two have totally different missions to fulfill.
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