Is "Parent Company" a Misnomer?

[NW Mailing List]

Color of passenger equipment, position-light signals, build-it- 
yourself equipment, etc.  Actually, it was more visible on the  
surface than underneath, with the widely-divergent motive power  
policies, etc.

pete groom

On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:07 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

. . .

For those of us far removed from the inner sanctum of the Board room,  
for all intents and purposes, it appears that whatever influence PRR  
had upon N&W, at least on the surface, was minimal.  Perhaps the  
wisest thing PRR ever did was to leave the N&W folks run their own  
railroad; maybe, maybe not.

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