SSW expantion - What might have been???

[Anonymous]

Me and Jhhtrainsplanes talk about the UP/SP/SSW merger today and If the UP continued to run the SSW it would be able to merg ,with lets say Conrail the SSW would go from St. Luey to New York or Virgina and probaly 10 or 15 years down the road the UP then would merg the SSW giving us SSW fans 20 more years or so with the good ol' Cotton Belt.

If Conrail did merg with the SSW here would be the name:

SSW+CR = SLCR , CRSW , or Contton Rail Belt ???[:p]
THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T. SSW really dodged a bulet. LOL

[Anonymous]

Me and Jhhtrainsplanes talk about the UP/SP/SSW merger today and If the UP continued to run the SSW it would be able to merg ,with lets say Conrail the SSW would go from St. Luey to New York or Virgina and probaly 10 or 15 years down the road the UP then would merg the SSW giving us SSW fans 20 more years or so with the good ol' Cotton Belt.

If Conrail did merg with the SSW here would be the name:

SSW+CR = SLCR , CRSW , or Contton Rail Belt ???[:p]
THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T. SSW really dodged a bulet. LOL

[Anonymous]

How about St. Louis Southwestern & Eastern or St. Louis Southwestern & Atlantic or St. Louis Southwestern & New York Eastern or ... not as easy as it might seem.

[Anonymous]

How about St. Louis Southwestern & Eastern or St. Louis Southwestern & Atlantic or St. Louis Southwestern & New York Eastern or ... not as easy as it might seem.

[Wdlgln005]

A part of the fun of this topic is to see SP/SSP build a trailer/ container facility on the SW corner of BRC Clearing yard. Then I began to see SP/SSP units in Chicago, including Tunnel Motors & SD9's. I'm quite sure they came up the old Alton line from St Louis. It would be cool to think the busy GM&O trains on the Chicago-St Louis corridor could have been in Daylight colors.

[Wdlgln005]

A part of the fun of this topic is to see SP/SSP build a trailer/ container facility on the SW corner of BRC Clearing yard. Then I began to see SP/SSP units in Chicago, including Tunnel Motors & SD9's. I'm quite sure they came up the old Alton line from St Louis. It would be cool to think the busy GM&O trains on the Chicago-St Louis corridor could have been in Daylight colors.

[AltonFan]

QUOTE: As for mergers, the SSW was partly owned by a religious order and the articles of incorporation required their consent to anything to do with a consolidation.

Do you know which order?

QUOTE: It would be cool to think the busy GM&O trains on the Chicago-St Louis corridor could have been in Daylight colors.

Would have been cooler in Alton colors...

[SSW9389]

In Fred Frailey's Blue Streak Merchandise there are a few paragraphs on a proposed merger between Cotton Belt and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in 1959. The merger never happened because the powers that be in San Francisco did not want to confront other railroads over interchange rights in St. Louis and in Chicago.

One of the reasons Cotton Belt lasted as long as it did in the modern era was because it had a better credit rating than Southern Pacific. That is why so many Cotton Belt locomotives and freight cars existed beyond the needs of the Cotton Belt.

[SSW9389]

In Fred Frailey's Blue Streak Merchandise there are a few paragraphs on a proposed merger between Cotton Belt and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in 1959. The merger never happened because the powers that be in San Francisco did not want to confront other railroads over interchange rights in St. Louis and in Chicago.

One of the reasons Cotton Belt lasted as long as it did in the modern era was because it had a better credit rating than Southern Pacific. That is why so many Cotton Belt locomotives and freight cars existed beyond the needs of the Cotton Belt.