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In the mid-1980s, the ATSF and Southern Pacific (two major US railroads) very nearly merged together to form a single entity (which would have been known as the SPSF, much like the later BNSF). They were, for a time, managed by the same corporate body, and even began to adopt identical paint schemes. However, the ICC (in charge of regulating American railroads) denied their application to merge, and they ended up going their separate ways. Both ended up merging into other, larger railroads (the BNSF and the Union Pacific), anyways. So...as this is an AH board, and not a RH one...what if that hadn't happened, and they had ended up merging? What would it have taken for that to happen, and what would have been the results?