It would have been interesting to see what happened if it hadn't spun off, suddenly you'd have a huge Fortune 500 telecom where its side business was running a

It would have been interesting to see what happened if it hadn't spun off, suddenly you'd have a huge Fortune 500 telecom where its side business was running a railroad. Would that have kept them afloat as an operation? I've spent the last few decades here watching as their red-and-grey engines disappeared in a sea of yellow.