Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...
Comparable to pre-War England, France, Russia and Germany are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when...
...short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York it has no trackage; it must operate over the lines of the Reading and the Jersey Central roads...
...Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock we control anyhow) and the Western Maryland (which we also already control but on account of which some persons are bringing anti-trust proceedings against us). We certainly have to have that Reading to give us secure access to New York. Remember that the New York Central and the Pennsylvania are twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track. Just give us these roads we have mentioned, and a few others, and we will be better able to compete with our big rivals...
...enlargement of the B. & O.? It is quite acceptable to the Chesapeake & Ohio, which has apparently concluded an alliance with the B. & O. and is even willing to concede the B. & O. one of the railroads (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) which the Van Sweringens own. The position of the New York Central is doubtful, since the New York Central also has a 25% interest in the Reading and may not be willing to turn over its holdings...