2018: 50th anniversary of the PC merger

[Franklin Gowen]

Fifty (!!!) years ago yesterday - February 1, 1968 - was the first 24 hours of the Penn Central.
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
Hard, indeed, to believe that NYC has now been gone for a full half-century.

[BR&P]

If anyone had told us back then what the railroad industry would be like today, they would have been sent to the loony bin.