Hello all,
Well, I don't believe American Premier Underwriters has any interests in Six Flags. However, they may insure it !! ....
What I remembered most (and found most interesting) from the reading the wreck of the Penn Central was the Pennsylvania's interest in Madision Square Garden. To think that the RR was involved at one point (albeit, just as a minority interest holder in the Garden) with the NY Knicks and NY Rangers is pretty amazing.
What I always wondered was how the various interests in New York came together to doom the old Penn Station. Well, that's a matter for a thread of its own.
Anyway, getting back to the subject of this thread. Does anybody know if any of the various component railroad subsidiaries still exist. In particular, the following:
Allentown Terminal Railroad:
I know that Conrail in the mid 1990's abolished the separate ATR jobs, folding them somehow into the regular Conrail structure, and I assumed eliminated the separate corporate structure as well.
Durham and Southern:
Many years ago, a CSX predessor leased this line down south. One of those 999 year deals railroads used to do way back when. I believe CSX still leases most of the original system, although I understand some of the line may have been abandoned.
For those interested in locomotive history, with the D&S lease, Seaboard got all four of the D&S's non dynamic brake equipped GP 38's. I believe CSX today still rosters all four of them. I have come to understand they are the only non dynamic brake equipped GP 38's on the CSX system. I have been told, however, they still belong to, and are listed as assets of, the Durham and Southern Railroad, at least on paper, to this day!
The New York and Long Branch Railroad.
I would love to know what happened to the corporate shell of this unique joint PRR and CNJ operation. I always wanted to get a chance to talk with NJT's Bill Herkner about what became of this corporate structure. Alas sadly, I won't ever get the chance to. However, if anybody out there knows, or can recall its fate, I'm sure we all would love to hear the story here.
Well, that's all for now folks.....
See ya all later....