Think of the Rio Grande's acquisition of the Southern
Pacific. Yes, that's what happened. Then the D&RGW, the
surviving corporation, changed its name to Southern Pacific.
Wes Leatherock
wleath@s...
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 JACKGP20@a... wrote:
> In railroad mergers in the past, usually one took over the other and changed
> their name to reflect the merger. EL, PC and NS are a good example of this.
> Conrail was not the case, because a new corporation was formed to save
> bankrupt northeast roads.
>
> When the Burlington, GN, NP, and SP&S merged to form BN; did one corporation
> survive or was a new corporation formed? Some say GN was the surviving corp.
>
> Also was their a surviving corporation in the BNSF merger?
>
>
> Jack Grasso
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