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Point Comfort and Northern to Buy BNSF! **Parody Alert**

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Posted by csmith9474 on Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:51 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Uh,
Hate to bust your bubble...But the HB&T hasnt exsisted for several years....Santa Fe and UP split it up around 1997....Now, if they will take a check, I am sure the PTRA wouldnt mind buying BNSF!

Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by csmith9474

In an unprecedented move, Point Comfort and Northern and Houston Belt & Terminal to buy BNSF and possibly Union Pacific. More to come....




Houston Belt and Terminal Federal Credit Union. Sorry about that misunderstanding.
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Posted by jeaton on Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:22 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Uh,
Hate to bust your bubble...But the HB&T hasnt exsisted for several years....Santa Fe and UP split it up around 1997....Now, if they will take a check, I am sure the PTRA wouldnt mind buying BNSF!

Ed

Ed

Let me know if they indicate they will take a check. I'll buy them all and then deed them all over to futuremodal with the provision that they go open access and he covers all losses.


Jay

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Posted by dehusman on Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 PM
Actually the PC&N has been sold. All of Alcoa's shortlines were sold to a shortline operator.

A mini-borg.

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 PM
What, a flat earther...Uh, I mean an open access martyr owning a monopolistic evil corporation like BNSF?
Sure you want to shock him that bad?


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Posted by coborn35 on Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:15 PM
Knock it off wiseguys. Everyone knows im buying BNSF,UP,NS,CSX, and CN, (you can have KCS and CP) and turnign them into a railroad where the locomotives being clean is always first priority and they must do everything to suit a railfans needs like blowing a - - 0 - to every railfan near the tracks.
What a bunch of jokers.......

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:32 PM
This sounds like somebody has too much gas and nowhere to pass it!!!!!
Rumors like this are running out of a lot of butts lately.
Is anybody stupid enough to believe it? Absolutely!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:08 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by gtirr

This sounds like somebody has too much gas and nowhere to pass it!!!!!
Rumors like this are running out of a lot of butts lately.
Is anybody stupid enough to believe it? Absolutely!!!!


What do you mean "stupid enough to believe it?"

It's gonna happen, I tell ya, it's gonna happen!


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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:16 PM
Actually, I am in conference with my credit union at British Petroleum, we will have a check in the morning!
Imagine, a world wide mega evil oil company owing a monopolistic closed access railway!
If we want you to take the train, we will jack oil prices so high...
And if we want you off the train, and driving again, we can charge twice what it cost to fly...(we plan on buying Delta and Northwest on Monday)...

What a country!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:28 PM
This has been a good week. Hurricanes are gone, cool front came through (for those of you who don't know, we've had 110 heat index days in Texas recently), and the forum got REAL FUN again!


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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:56 PM
UP get bought out. In the words of Nero Wolfe "Phooye!" I'll belive it when it happens, pigs fly, and time mackines are invented.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:01 PM
AYE.... looks to be BS to me........


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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:01 PM
I guess you havent seen my brother in law, nor watched him fly...neither one is a pretty sight!
They do give pigs pilots licenses....
Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

UP get bought out. In the words of Nero Wolfe "Phooye!" I'll belive it when it happens, pigs fly, and time mackines are invented.

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Posted by jeaton on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:36 PM
Wait a minute. You mean we don't have time machines?

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Posted by csmith9474 on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:40 PM
I just got an update! PC&N wants to start a massive steam program. They want to round up all the T&NO Mikados that they can and restore them. Sounds like a great steam program. From what I have heard, they also want to bring in NS management as consultants.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:42 PM
How does PC&N get all this money, to buy UP, BNSF, NS, and restore a bunch of steam lcomotives?
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Posted by csmith9474 on Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:49 PM
As I stated previously, the big roads don't have much of a choice. The STB has created a special program that would essentially require the surrrender of controlling shares to the prospective shortline (or regional) as long as the meet certain criteria. This is a huge move on the part of the PC&N.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:07 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

Wait a minute. You mean we don't have time machines?

Jay


He didn't say time machines, he said "time mackines." Two different conveyances.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:33 PM
Show me this special program! Is the government forcing all the major railroads to sell, won't this create a rail monopoly out west? The government is not likely to allow any mergers much less UP to BNSF!
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Posted by ericsp on Friday, September 30, 2005 1:53 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Uh,
Hate to bust your bubble...But the HB&T hasnt exsisted for several years....Santa Fe and UP split it up around 1997....Now, if they will take a check, I am sure the PTRA wouldnt mind buying BNSF!

Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by csmith9474

In an unprecedented move, Point Comfort and Northern and Houston Belt & Terminal to buy BNSF and possibly Union Pacific. More to come....


That is what they want you to believe. The HB&T has entered into a massive conspiracy with some undisclosed Texas politicians to take over the world. This scheme required it to fake its death. They are hiding their locomotives in a secret, undisclosed location (they did not go to the "parent" railroads).[;)]

I heard PC&N was planning on "buying" all railroads.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2005 6:37 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

Show me this special program! Is the government forcing all the major railroads to sell, won't this create a rail monopoly out west? The government is not likely to allow any mergers much less UP to BNSF!


Texas was the only state that was it's own country before it joined the United States. Because of that, Texas was granted special privisions in cases, like this particular merger,where a Texas law that was on the books before they joined the union supercedes any subsequent federal law that might disagree with that law. That's why we all carry sidearms. We could do it before, so why not now?

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Posted by edblysard on Friday, September 30, 2005 7:55 AM
Actually, thats a little backwards...we let the Union join Texas...

[:D]Ed

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, September 30, 2005 8:04 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mehrlich

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

Show me this special program! Is the government forcing all the major railroads to sell, won't this create a rail monopoly out west? The government is not likely to allow any mergers much less UP to BNSF!


Texas was the only state that was it's own country before it joined the United States. Because of that, Texas was granted special privisions in cases, like this particular merger,where a Texas law that was on the books before they joined the union supercedes any subsequent federal law that might disagree with that law. That's why we all carry sidearms. We could do it before, so why not now?

m

Sorry to burst the bubble of all Texans, my nephew included, but California was briefly an independent country (about six months or so) during the beginning of the Mexican War and that fact is still advertised on their state flag.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2005 8:22 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mehrlich

QUOTE: Originally posted by csmith9474

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

No more BNSF[:(],I think am gona cry now[V].
Allan.


Looks like you gotta change your username, buddy.


PC&N Railfan. That doesn't sound too bad.


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HELL NO!
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, September 30, 2005 9:43 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Uh,
Hate to bust your bubble...But the HB&T hasnt exsisted for several years....Santa Fe and UP split it up around 1997....Now, if they will take a check, I am sure the PTRA wouldnt mind buying BNSF!

Ed

Ed

Let me know if they indicate they will take a check. I'll buy them all and then deed them all over to futuremodal with the provision that they go open access and he covers all losses.


Jay


[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D] That's too funny Jay [(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, September 30, 2005 9:56 AM
BTW are we giving trophys out to whoever comes up with the wildest merger rumor?
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Posted by samfp1943 on Friday, September 30, 2005 10:06 AM
I cannot believe I just read all these posts! I think we are in ther middle of a massive mental melt down..The inmates have seized the asylum, and it will be painted like an Easter egg, Bright Blue and Armour Yellow with touches here and there of every color from Greenstein Green to Pumpkin Orange..

 

 


 

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Posted by SALfan on Friday, September 30, 2005 10:11 AM
I'd like to buy a couple of pounds of whatever hallucinogen these yo-yo's have ingested. Pretty potent stuff!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2005 10:44 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Actually, thats a little backwards...we let the Union join Texas...

[:D]Ed


Yes Ed, you and I know that, but some of the others wouldn't understand.


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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2005 10:47 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by JOdom

I'd like to buy a couple of pounds of whatever hallucinogen these yo-yo's have ingested. Pretty potent stuff!!


I'm high on the real thing...powerful gasoline, a clean windshield and a shoeshine.
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Posted by Chris30 on Friday, September 30, 2005 11:02 AM
This post is comical... The UP, BNSF & whoever being taken over by who? The PC&Nothing (I already forgot their name). Electric blue steam engines... I can't wait to see that retro UP special paint job on engine 2005 (to protect the licensing issues).

You know what they say about Texas... everything is bigger - including the rumors

Somebodies HO railroad has gotten way out of control,
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