Heratige Trains & Lord of the Rings

[Dave V]

yeah, but isn't that still "addition" at the core?
 

It should have been CxS.  or C(S).
But I suppose it works if you take knowledge and logic out of it...
PCX- Multiplying the Penn by the Central.
Too bad it all equals zero anyways thanks to the NYC and the zero property of multiplication it brings to the table

I'm as big an SPF as they come, but the fact is Pennsy brought the NYC down and it was Pennsy's late-in-life vapid leadership that drive PC into the toilet.  NYC was the vastly more efficient of the two roads with more forward-looking leadership.

[chicken45]

Based on this, CXS would have been better!  Chessie X Seaboard...

I beat you to it by a minute!

I WIN! 

[Bob Bufkin]

The way CSX has been running around here hey should be called NBG - Nothing But Gevos.

[PGE-N°2]

I'm as big an SPF as they come, but the fact is Pennsy brought the NYC down and it was Pennsy's late-in-life vapid leadership that drive PC into the toilet.  NYC was the vastly more efficient of the two roads with more forward-looking leadership.

Failures in leadership have felled many giants. It's a fairly good bet we would still have at least one more transcontinental mainline if the Milwaukee Road had had proper forward-looking leadership during the 1970s.

[fredmoehrle]

Let's not forget Fairbanks-Morris which dithered away an order for 150 TrainMaster's!
They couldn't decide if they wanted to keep making locomotives.

[Bob Bufkin]

Fairbanks-Morris is still in business.  They make diesel engines for shipboard use.  Just saw one of their adverts in a magazine.

[Packer]

Failures in leadership have felled many giants. It's a fairly good bet we would still have at least one more transcontinental mainline if the Milwaukee Road had had proper forward-looking leadership during the 1970s.

IDK what they were thinking when they pulled out of the western regions. BN was offered the "better" milwuakee mainline but declined (weird, the milwuakee route had less steep grades and was shorter; some of the grades on the BN routes approached 4-5 percent) probably becuase it'd be even MORE redundant than the NP and GN routes that were both in use...

Let's not forget Fairbanks-Morris which dithered away an order for 150 TrainMaster's!
They couldn't decide if they wanted to keep making locomotives.

They just don't make locomotives anymore.

[Bob Bufkin]

Eastern railroads made dumb mistakes also.  The WM grades and bridges between Hagerstown and Cumberland and West of Cumberland were better than the old B&O ones but were taken out in favor of exB&O.

[VonRyan]

Failures in leadership have felled many giants. It's a fairly good bet we would still have at least one more transcontinental mainline if the Milwaukee Road had had proper forward-looking leadership during the 1970s.

Unless your railway is in England... then the government brings you down and/or conglomerates everyone into a nationalized, government-run system with crappy paint choices.


-Cody F.

[PGE-N°2]

Unless your railway is in England... then the government brings you down and/or conglomerates everyone into a nationalized, government-run system with crappy paint choices.

-Cody F.

Do we detect a note of bitterness in that statement...

[Mark5]

And it's been known since at least the time they merged since I remember reading about it in Trains or whatever back when...


From CSX's Facebook Page:

"The Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries Inc. came together and CSX Corporation was created to serve the eastern half of the nation. The C stands for Chessie, the S for Seaboard, and the X for the multiplication effect, recognizing the two companies coming together."

Yes, I knew that but ask John Q Public what CSX means. 

[DKS]

Yes, I knew that but ask John Q Public what CSX means. 

Ask John Q Public what anything means. Mostly you'll get head scratching and shoulder shrugging.

[VonRyan]

Ask John Q Public what anything means. Mostly you'll get head scratching and shoulder shrugging.

 

I sadly have to agree with that. The vast majority of the student body in my high school has no common sense, or a respectable command of the English language.

Apparently the phrase "What's Good?" is the new "what's up?" while also being one of those multi-use phrases with no clear definition beyond it's original one.

Sometimes when people shout "What's Good?" at one another I just want to shout back things like "Pizza" or "The Weather".

I'm scared to see what the spoken English language will be like in the next 20 years...


-Cody F.