Now to throw a wrench in the gears. Long before the day of DEATH for the Lackawanna, it was in talks to merge the NKP in. The DL&W was looking for a way to get to Chicago on it's own rails. "IF" the NKP agreed, how different would today's railroads look. The Lackawanna was the only railroad that never went bankrupt or filed for bankruptcy in it's entire history. This merger would of made the DL&W financially secure, would of literally spelled the end of the Erie, New York Central, Reading, Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh and New England, Lehigh and Hudson, New York, Ontairo and Western and New York, Susquehanna and Western. Gave the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, New Haven and Wabash a run for it's money all before the 1955 Flood, which left the DL&W almost cash broke. Just think, no EL, PC or Conrail. Would Norfolk Southern or CSX exist, Miss Phoebe Snow would still be riding the rails.
Long live Miss Phoebe Snow.
