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When I moved from Pennsylvania to Oregon, I regularly encountered people here who, when I told them I was from Pennsylvania, would say things like "Oh, I have a cousin from Virginia" or "Oh, I've been to New Hampshire" or the like. To which my mental inner voice would respond, "Those are other...

You asked me for input.

The B&O's merger with the DL&W, CNJ and Reading had a profound effect on the railroads in the Northeast. The mighty Pennsylvania and New York Central could weather the competition with relative ease, but the smaller roads in the region quickly decided they must make countermoves or be left out...

Alcan Railway would (reporting marks: ALC) would likely be dieselized right from the start. Dieselization on American and Canadian roads would have been moving along more rapidly than in OTL, because the United States never entered the war and therefore US diesel locomotive manufacturers are...

Proposed name: Yukon Railway Corporation

No opinion on GM&O plus Frisco? That one went pretty far: they were actually in merger talks.

The Vans combination would have been very bad news for both DL&W and Lehigh Valley, as it would swallow up the NKP, a vital western connection for both at Buffalo; that traffic would be diverted to the Erie. One of them would probably look to the Wabash, but the other might try to get under the...

The PRR and N&W are an obvious merger-in-response, but the B&O is indeed in serious trouble, and may seek to join either NYC+C&O or PRR+N&W in order to avoid being left out in the cold. The Erie is also going to need to find a dance partner, and fast.

Just reading issues of TRAINS magazine from the first few months of 1948 on the complete TRAINS DVD set, and I noted that these mergers were either being attempted or touted around that time: New York Central plus Chesapeake & Ohio (this is the biggie, a la Robert Young) Lackawanna plus Nickel...

I would have preferred live concerts, interviews, rock movies, etc., with only some of the airtime devoted to videos, to what MTV actually aired.

Accountants!: The Musical "Is It AP Or Is It AR?" "Why Can't I Depreciate?" "Cut Your Costs!" "If You Were Revenue, I'd Recognize You Too"

Along with reality TV, I'd make infomercials go away. They were no doubt conceived in the mind of Satan and (along with "The View") are what plays 24/7 on every TV in Hell. I'd go back further in time on cable TV, maybe back to the late 80s to early 90s. The more channels we have, the worse off...

For a person who claims to love trains, you are incredibly excited about attacking them. Every time a thread like this appears, you can count on DougM tripping over himself in his rush to get into the thread and start dumping on the idea. You don't win points for that, you know.