Great Lakes and Atlantic-Dream come true?

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cpbloom

As VP of Tourism and PR, I'd like to set up a round trip rail excursion from Pittsburgh to Buffalo (Niagara Falls).

What kind of ridership do you expect? When should we operate this if it is voted on?

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd

My legal representatives, Fleecem & Sue, have informed me that the railroad I meant you to pick up is the Ogdensburgh & Lake Champlain, not the NYO&W... old men are entitled to lapses!

Who owns it? It doesn't already belong to the G&A does it? (we own the Genesse&Wyoming group and Rail America)

[jchnhtfd]

My legal representatives, Fleecem & Sue, have informed me that the railroad I meant you to pick up is the Ogdensburgh & Lake Champlain, not the NYO&W... old men are entitled to lapses!

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jruppert

You don't have a department to oversee maintenace, and mechanical standards.

That is included with the VP of Real Estate and Property Management job. New mechanical standards are givin to each department through the Department of Research (VP of Research oversees this)

[Anonymous]

You don't have a department to oversee maintenace, and mechanical standards.

[cpbloom]

As VP of Tourism and PR, I'd like to set up a round trip rail excursion from Pittsburgh to Buffalo (Niagara Falls).

[Junctionfan]

If it's any consolation, we are not repainting the engines; just renumbering them.

Cheaper.

[railman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

Sorry Junctionfan,

But the law offices of Dewy Cheatam n' Hall have just been employed by Gabe Hawkins to file an injunction (no punn intended) against the Great Lakes & Atlantic Railway.

Mr. Hawkins is aware of your Canadian ancestory and has yet to recover from the Canadians taking over his beloved Illinois Central and Wisconsin Central. Although Mr. Hawkins is rumored to be fond of Canadians, he has seen enough and cannot stand the thought of another American Railway succombing to his brothers to the north.

milwaukee road fans in mourning concur with this course of action.

[Junctionfan]

Banks be damned; the government is in my pocket.

hahahahahahahaha (evil laugh)

[Anonymous]

All this is well and good, just remember the bankers Blindem and Robbem have a long distinguished history of railroad questions in finance.

[Overmod]

Aha! I retract previous comments! Name works *perfectly* well on that ground...

But are they $chei$ter$?

To paraphrase St. Augustine, I've been for tort reform ... but under the present circumstances, Lord ... not yet.

[Junctionfan]

Don't forget the law firm of Perot, Chiseller and Slick

[gabe]

Actually, I did "make up" that name roughly five years ago. When I was in law school 1L moot court, each group of participants had to make up the name of their own lawfirm to list on our briefs. The "correct" spelling had already been taken, so we decided to change the spelling to achieve something close. I have forever since used that name anytime I reference a make-believe lawfirm.

Gabe

[Overmod]

Gabe, if you made up the old vaudeville gag Dewey, Cheatum and Howe you must be about 110 years old. Congratulations on remaining in such good health! Even the Three Stooges used this, back in the '30s.

Seriously -- or perhaps unseriously would be a better word -- the 'Cheatham' is a less unlikely spelling for a 'dignified' senior law partner (even if it started off being a more 'Faulknerian' (or Falknerian, incidentally using the original form) spelling).

There's a rival law firm by the name of Roger, Futter and Swive, btw. (of the late Keith Laumer's origination). I leave you to fill in the first names; all we were given was that one of the Roger family partners was John Thomas Roger...

[Junctionfan]

It's too late....resistance is futile. How many railroads do you think are owned by Rail America and the Genesse Wyoming (lots). When we consolidated, we just joined in the lines at least around the Great Lakes, and made the mainlines. Too bad I couldn't have bought the BLE and the others before CN got their grubby little hands into it.

Oh well, the Buffalo and Pittsburgh lines can take care of the abandoned CN customers there too.

[gabe]

They don't represent a railroad; they represent me and my purely selfish interest in not seeing another railroad go the way IC and WC did. But, you are right, they will take the ca$e.

Gabe

[cpbloom]

If they are a smart lawfirm they will clearly understand that no railroad stands idly by and get "absorbed" by another as if they are powerless to do anything (except maybe help).

If they are an even smarter lawfirm they will blindly accept the ca$e.

[gabe]

Is it possible to misspell last names you make up? Oh the existential debate that rages in my head.

[Overmod]

Gabe, when did Mr. Howe retire, and when did Mr. Hall make partner?

And the middle man's name is CHEATHAM. Howard E. Cheatham, Esq. He tends to be litigious when misspelled...

[JoeKoh]

Im not scared. I'll take Marketing and customer service.Look out ns and csx
stay safe
Joe

[gabe]

I will boycot bacon, Labatts Blue, and Celine Dion if this thing goes through.

[Junctionfan]

Good luck with that; my lawyers will tie it up in court for years if it goes through. I do plan on buying the Wisconsin Southern and taking over all the neglected CN customers there next year as well as the E J&E.

Make no mistake America; our company maybe Canadian in origin but unlike the other class 1s, we care about our customers and their prosperity. If they prosper, we prosper. You have nothing to worry about.

[gabe]

Sorry Junctionfan,

But the law offices of Dewy Cheatam n' Hall have just been employed by Gabe Hawkins to file an injunction (no punn intended) against the Great Lakes & Atlantic Railway.

Mr. Hawkins is aware of your Canadian ancestory and has yet to recover from the Canadians taking over his beloved Illinois Central and Wisconsin Central. Although Mr. Hawkins is rumored to be fond of Canadians, he has seen enough and cannot stand the thought of another American Railway succombing to his brothers to the north.

[Overmod]

Mitch -- start by giving him a herald and logo to replace that ghastly thing he puts in his signature... ;-}

I have a vision of the "Proudly Serving North America" as a banner on the long hood, with paired flags of the two nations in parallel ... the US flag leading Canadian on one side, Canadian leading on the other ... much like the UP long-hood flags -- rather than using the slogan on the cab a la '70s Union Pacific "We Pan-Handle It"

This puts the numbers on the cab, gold outline with some deep color, engine-turning embossed into the (vinyl self-adhesive) stock used for the numbers. What's the right "company" typeface for the numbers and lettering?

Number boards should be some hue of yellow or orange, in reverse, on dark background (as that's the most visible by actual test).

Does he use the three-light Canadian-style markers? Be sure there are IR transceivers in there for non-radio line-of-sight wireless communication... ;-}

And, of course, variable-deflection Gyra-Lite type anticollision (you can adjust the 'wobble' of the beam, and perhaps also modulate the speed of rotation within limits, so that it can act as a spotlight does). Not a replacement for alternate-flashing ditch lights, of course -- those light the roadbed and sides, down low, so provide optics like projector-beam headlights (and perhaps put strobe tubes in the housings that synchronize with signals from 'grade crossing cams' to give better lighting to 'malefactors' ...

Dark blue for the Atlantic
Light blue above for big sky
Gold lettering and striping for wheat? I'd look at a modified NYC lightning stripe for general contour; Sterzing said he'd have picked it for the Sharks if he'd seen it before he approved the Warbonnet model...

Get hold of Raytheon and have them gin up a larger version of the NightDriver system for the engineer -- cost-effective, fixes forever any problem with 800-foot visibility for the engine crew, and almost certainly can be made to interface with the cab control and communications systems.

[cpbloom]

QUOTE: Originally posted by piouslion

I'll concur with the tourisim and PR part for you, Would you let me take the pictures?

Its yours

[Anonymous]

I'll take on art and advertising. Posters for everyone, but I want to lay out the trainmen's uniform specs as well. Computer tickets should still come out on Association Ticket Paper.

Sounds like a fit, I must commit.
Mitch

[Anonymous]

I'll concur with the tourisim and PR part for you, Would you let me take the pictures?

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd

Don't laugh, guys -- funnier things have happened in the la-la-land which characterises big corporations these days!

Junction -- why not pick up some of the trackage on the south shore of the St. Lawrence (the old New York, Ontario & Western) while you're at it -- and maybe the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County too!

I do own the Providence and Worchester, Guilford Systems, St. Lawrence and Atlantic and the Montreal Maine and Atlantic around that area.

[cpbloom]

Come on don't be so critical, play along.

I'll take VP of Tourism and P.R.

[jchnhtfd]

Don't laugh, guys -- funnier things have happened in the la-la-land which characterises big corporations these days!

Junction -- why not pick up some of the trackage on the south shore of the St. Lawrence (the old New York, Ontario & Western) while you're at it -- and maybe the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County too!