How come when the BN merged with the ATSF they combined the name to make BNSF, but when the UP merged with SP,MP, and C&NW they didnt?
Or were they really takeovers, not mergers at all?
You’re probably right on the latter, but they’re probably rationalizing that everyone else needed to switch to UP’s name anyway because it “made sense”- UNION Pacific?
The C&NW was a pure and simple take-over.
And in regards to SP and MP, to paraphrase a SP officer in 1996:
“…we’re contributing the Pacific part of the name, their contributing the Union part.”[;)]
SC
I kinda thought so.
I heard that the UP was merged into the SP and then the name was changed to UP.
All depends on who’s controlling the combination (be it merger, assimilation, purchase, takeover, etc). You’ll notice that NS and CSX are still NS and CSX now that the Conrail split is over. Just because you’re combining two (or more) entities doesn’t necessarily mean the name that emerges in the end has to reflect the participants.
Consider that had NYC or PRR been stronger, the end result might have been NYC or PRR, not PC. There are dozens of examples.
Good grief, the names! BNSFNS?
Canada and Kansas City Southern?
CSX/KCS?
Burlington Canadian?
UP + CP might result in “United Pacific,” best of a bad bunch. But how many people believe that UP has the wherewithal to buy CP (a tragedy at any rate!).
Maybe we should steal a march from Ayn Rand and go with “Taggart Transcontinental.” … [;)]
So after the PRR & NYC Merged,The why did the PENNCENTRAL go Bankrupted months later in the first place? Allan.
Originally posted by chad thomas
I heard that the UP was merged into the SP and then the name was changed to UP.
TRUE STATEMENT. I remember reading in The Wall Street Journal that the Union Pacific Corporation folded the Union Pacific Railroad Company into the Southern Pacific. For a few hours, I suppose, there LITERALLY WAS NO U.P.! Later that same day the combined railroads, momentarily but officially known as Southern Pacific, underwent a name change to Union Pacific.
WOW , very interesting, cool to know.
Alec
Simple… We keep union, you keep pacific[:I]
Notice both railroads UP merged with had Pacific in the name. How convienient…
Too bad it wasn’t that way. We would have a better company to work for.
Virlon
save your ticket… the P.E. will rise again.
SP was merged into Union Pacific.Chad and Bob are thinking of the SP being merged into the D&RGW which then changed it’s name.