Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger - Virginia Business Union Pacific seeks $85B merger with Norfolk Southern

Wed Aug 6 13:57:16 EDT 2025

You have UP locos? 🤢 That's odd.

😀
Mike Rector

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 12:17 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> So lets repaint our UP locos  to all black to include Norfolk and Western
> on the tenders.  Just for spite
>
> Mark Lindsey
> Y3a at earthlink.net
> 571-352-6358(cell)
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 30, 2025, at 8:42 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> 
> You know I'm not sure what to think oh this. I'll say I started feeling
> better about UP after reading Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who
> Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869.
>
> David Baker
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 7:44 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I simply don’t like UP.  My least favorite Class 1.  I well understand
>> railroad operations and financials.  I well understand mergers.  I don’t
>> like the damn yellow.  It’s hardly a Southeastern railroad.  I simply don’t
>> like UP.
>>
>> Ed Painter #70
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> The UP started using Armour Yellow with Harbor Mist Gray in 1940.  It
>>> became standard on switchers and cabooses in 1947.   That is only 85 years.
>>>   The Santa Fe started using the War bonnet paint scheme in 1937.  It was
>>> used until 1996, only 59 years.     Not every corporation feel the need to
>>> re-brand itself with a new logo.
>>>
>>>  belong to multiple historical societies because I am interested in
>>> their history.  Corporate mergers do not alter past history.
>>>
>>> Jim Stapleton
>>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2025, at 17:24, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Their paint scheme is tired and has been around forever.  I don't like
>>> it.  I like BNSF far better.  Financially and operationally either would be
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Ed  #70
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM NW Mailing List <
>>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ed, Roger, and others: why?  The Norfolk and Western, the railroad for
>>>> which we are enthusiasts and modelers, has been gone for 43 years. The
>>>> classic Norfolk and Western, in some views, has been gone since 1964. Some
>>>> would say their interest ends in 1960, when the last steam locomotive was
>>>> in revenue service. Even if you dislike UP, and its boatload of
>>>> predecessors, why would that reduce your interest in your railroad?
>>>>
>>>> This may increase this organization's interest in what is going to be
>>>> another fallen flag.  Or the UP Society May embrace them.  Let's see what
>>>> happens.
>>>>
>>>> Frank Bongiovanni
>>>> Mostly modeling the Virginian, which has been gone longer than it
>>>> existed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM NW Mailing List <
>>>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Me too!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed Painter #70
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
>>>>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Won't matter to me as that would cancel interest! I hate the Yellow
>>>>>> Hoard!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Roger Huber
>>>>>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 11:41:03 AM CDT, NW Mailing List <
>>>>>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How much are dues for membership in the UP&NSHS? :^)
>>>>>> Jim Cochran
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
>>>>>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://virginiabusiness.com/union-pacific-norfolk-southern-merger-railroad-2/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is on today’s Virginia Business website.
>>>>>> Tom Bosquet   #0088
>>>>>>
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