Remember "Family Lines"? Canada is cold, Florida is hot, so how about the Frozen Hot Lines?
If CP and NS didn't make it, why would CP and CSX do so? Such a merger is a cool idea, but destined for a flaming hot place in my opinion ...
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Wow-...that about covers the territory nicely ...and feeds ego's..genius!
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99.99% a CSX-Canadian Pacific merger will not happen but then again the Cubs won the World Series and your new President was a "HUGE" surprise.
So lets have some fun and give this newly merged entity a name, because if it happens that will need to be done anyway.
To me CSX is the railroad that doesn't want anyone to know what they are. Railroaders and Railfans know what CSX means and stands for, Chessie/Seaboard multiplied, or something like that, but no one else knows that. Canadian Pacific goes back a long way, is revered, unified and actually saved the Dominion of Canada. At one time it really did "Span the World". Contrary to falsely held and boneheaded belief it is not government owned...it has always been a private company with widely held stock throughout the world. Little old ladies everywhere own Canadian Pacific stock and always have.
So we have a tradional, old, loved, revered national and international icon coming together with a company that has abandoned all of that and is a ...what?..a CSX.
My own path is that you totally start new, abandon both identities and proclaim something that reflects the hopes of a new millennium, a name that is recognizable as a railroad but totally new in approach.
What say you? Any suggestions?
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