--- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <lam...@...> wrote:
>
> Dear NYC and PRR Fans:
>
> Having read with amusement the good-natured banter on this list concerning
> the never-ending NYC vs PRR debate, I would now like to offer irrefutable
> proof that NYC is the victor and the PRR is the vanquished.
>
> As most of you know, I railroad for a living. I work a switch job
> primarily, and in so doing I see an awful lot of railroad cars travel in/out
> of our yard and over our system to our various connections.
>
> Today, having just made a joint, I was sitting in the cab of the Alco and
> looking about. Beside me is a long track full of cars that serves one of our
> drilling sand customers. Right beside my engine sat a covered hopper car
> that caught my attention. Believe it or not, its reporting marks were
> "NYC". Yup, "NYC". And this car is not an isolated oddity. Recently I
> have noticed NYC coil steel cars, boxcars, along with covered hoppers. I
> NEVER see ANY cars with "PRR" reporting marks.
>
> SOOOO...
>
> It appears that SOMEWHERE... on someone's accounting sheet and in the paper
> world, the NYC still exists!
>
> There you have it: The NYC survived and therefore displaced the PRR. It
> must be the superior railroad.
>
> :-)
>
> (That ought to get'em started!!)
>
> Andre Ming
>
OK Andre,
I'll bite. They got the cars. We got the locomotives. Now tell me who won.
Jamie Bothwell
Bethlehem, PA (Where I can travel a mile to the train yard and see locomotives
with PRR
reporting marks!)
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