by Engineer Spike
Fellow member CPF363 and I often discuss railroad mergers. Sometimes about proposed mergers which never happened. Now that Conrail and Southern Pacific have been fully digested into their respective mergers, what do you think will happen next? Everyone talks about the obvious, such as BN-NS, or UP-NS.
The big question is how the Canadian roads will fit in. They already have extensive US holdings. BNSF and CN already proposed a merger, but it was too soon after the upheaval of the two mergers, which I already mentioned. The STB didn't want another disaster so soon.
With the head of steam that Hunter Harrison has built up at CP, might he initiate something? Everyone says CP+KCS, but what about CSX? They have been an underdog financially, especially compered to NS. This would add a coast-to-coast road married to one with an extremely deep market penetration in the east.
We have to consider that it will happen. I pointed out to CPF363 that the merger game has gone on forever. One of my great - great - great grandmother's cousins was an attorney who helped organize the Connecticut Western. It became part of the Central New England, which became part of the New Haven, which became part of Penn Central, which became Conrail. It was then split between CSX and NS. It's like the Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start the Fire."
The big question is how the Canadian roads will fit in. They already have extensive US holdings. BNSF and CN already proposed a merger, but it was too soon after the upheaval of the two mergers, which I already mentioned. The STB didn't want another disaster so soon.
With the head of steam that Hunter Harrison has built up at CP, might he initiate something? Everyone says CP+KCS, but what about CSX? They have been an underdog financially, especially compered to NS. This would add a coast-to-coast road married to one with an extremely deep market penetration in the east.
We have to consider that it will happen. I pointed out to CPF363 that the merger game has gone on forever. One of my great - great - great grandmother's cousins was an attorney who helped organize the Connecticut Western. It became part of the Central New England, which became part of the New Haven, which became part of Penn Central, which became Conrail. It was then split between CSX and NS. It's like the Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start the Fire."