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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by WM7471 When Union Pacific was in the process of swallowing SP. Conrail tried to get the STB to split the Cotton Belt off from the rest of SP so that they could aquire it. The idea was to tap into the Cotton Belt's Gulf Coast chemical traffic to the Northeast. However, the STB didn't go along with the idea and the SSW became part of UP. Such a move would have changed a lot of things...Blue engines in Houston. And I doubt that Conrail would have been bought by NS and CSX. While I have no way of knowing, I wonder if UP thought Conrail might have been eyeing all of SP? [/quote] It is to bad that SP-SSW didn't buy Conrail or vise versa. A one railroad trascon route. I was not a big Conrail fan (sure wish I would have had Conrail stock the first day of issue) but I sure hated to see it go, and especially being split between two other railroads. And while we are dreaming let's add a special passenger train from New York to LA, sounds good doesn't it? I much rather would have seen a Sp/SSW/Conrail merger than what has happened. If that would have happened Sp/Conrail could have still been around. And that's a better deal. [:p]
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