QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates Boy, it sure seems like I get in more HEATED discussions about "gun control" with Canadians than anyone else.
QUOTE: Originally posted by kurtconi Seagrams got involved with that Vivendi/20th Century Fox fiasco. I understand that Peter Bronfmam lost a pile of the familys money on the deal. So much money that the family basicly cut him off. I wish I could remember the whole story about the bronfam family as told to me by my dad. The old man Bronfam used to operate used car lots on the border in Ontario and Manitoba during prohibition in the U S. He sold cars "As Is".. "As Is" was with 30 some cases of whiskey packed in them. All the Goombas from Kansas City, St Louis ,Chicago and Detroit. would pile into a car and drive up north. As I recall he got $400.00 per model A. There were lots of hijackings and shootouts here in minnisota and wisconsin. My Father could really tell a story. Kurt.
QUOTE: Originally posted by BentnoseWillie QUOTE: LOL Colt, Springfield Armory, Smith & Wesson,..(just kidding, everyone knows how you canadians feel about owning guns....[4:-)]Ironically, Canadians own at least as many firearms per person as Americans do. We have a lower proportion of murders committed with firearms, however. Our weapon of choice is a slingshot and a bag of stale TImbits. [:O)]
QUOTE: LOL Colt, Springfield Armory, Smith & Wesson,..(just kidding, everyone knows how you canadians feel about owning guns....[4:-)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by CliqueofOne Highrise Office buildings for one thing, and a number of VERY cherished Department stores.... Also, one of the MAJOR hollywood studios. Names, please, names. Signal Mechanic. Signal Department. Canadian.[?]
QUOTE: Originally posted by macguyRenaming CN to IC would require them to re-paint the vast majority of their loco's and thousands of pieces of rolling stock, and I'm sure that's the only thing that's stopping them from renaming the railroad.
QUOTE: It's one thing to change your name for easier brand reconition, and a whole nother thing to send out memo's to all your employes saying that they can no longer refer to CN as Canadian or Canadian National, just CN.
QUOTE: Originally posted by CliqueofOne Funny, but when Canadian interests were buying up USA "trophies" back in the 1980's, it was considered "bad form" if we ugly americans protested the workings of the "free market" Could you please refresh my memory as to what USA "trophies", Canadian interests were buying back in the 1980s. Thanks in advance for the enlightenment. Signal Mechanic, Signal Department, former Canadian National Railways. [?]
QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy Renaming CN to IC would require them to re-paint the vast majority of their loco's and thousands of pieces of rolling stock, and I'm sure that's the only thing that's stopping them from renaming the railroad. How so? I still see a lot of "southern" rolling stock on NS trains. I bet UP has quite a bit of "MoPac" , "CNW", "Southern Pacific" And even "Cotton Belt" rolling stock not getting fresh paint anytime soon.
QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy Renaming CN to IC would require them to re-paint the vast majority of their loco's and thousands of pieces of rolling stock, and I'm sure that's the only thing that's stopping them from renaming the railroad.
QUOTE: Originally posted by BentnoseWillie QUOTE: Originally posted by macguyAs far as I'm concerned CN outbid UP when they sent out the memo saying they no longer want any of their employees to refer to CN as Canadian or Canadian National, just CN. True - but they also banned the names "Chicago Central & Pacific", "Wisconsin Central", and "Illinois Central" (to name a few), many of which had much more history than "Canadian National" did. The privatization legislation didn't specify a retention of the name - if they really wanted to exterminate the Canadian part of the corporate identity, they'd rename it Illinois Central...[:O)] All CN did was settle on a name that matched their logo more closly, for easier brand recognition - just like Industrial Business Machine and American Telegraph and Telephone did. The full name isn't dead, - in fact, the index page of CN's website (which, by the way, is a .ca domain) includes "Canadian National" in the title bar.
QUOTE: Originally posted by macguyAs far as I'm concerned CN outbid UP when they sent out the memo saying they no longer want any of their employees to refer to CN as Canadian or Canadian National, just CN.
QUOTE: Originally posted by BentnoseWillie QUOTE: CN seems to have interest in the resources we have here in the US. 'Scuse me? Canada-US trade balance is the other way 'round - the US imports Canadian resources (we were their second-largest supplier of crude oil in 2002). Meanwhile, we import US manufactured goods. We sell more than we buy, because they outnumber us ten to one. I don't see a surprise in CN integrating more US roads. US investors bought most of CN nearly a decade ago, and the majority of its business is cross-border, so further integration was inevitable, as was "Americanisation" at the top executive level. "Y'gotta dance with the one what brung ya", after all. Integration has been going on for a century or longer, but it's more overt recently because of evolving regulatory environments. Like it or not, it was bound to happen. Change is the only constant.
QUOTE: CN seems to have interest in the resources we have here in the US.
QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF9838 I want to know if the CN & BNSF will still talk "merger" talk's? BNSFfan.
QUOTE: Originally posted by bjk041089 Have any of you trainfans noticed that CN has bought so much track that they extend to the Gulf of Mexico. CN seems to have interest in the resources we have here in the US. CN might just make it in South America in some time. Tell me what you think about CN Mergers to the Gulf Coast. [?]
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