Comments on: Infrastructure Investing: Your Choices For North American Rail Transport and Railroad Stocks

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:47:18 +0000

Update: Buffett has just completely bought out the BNSF Railways. He paid a premium for it, too, paying a total of 34 billion. Wow. Total bull bet on the US economy.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:29:49 +0000

Interesting. Looks like CP is working to improve market share. Both stocks are moving in tandem lately, though. Both down roughly same amount and similar share prices, too.

By: cyberclark

cyberclark — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:16:06 +0000

Locked into CN puts you at the mercy of unstable service because of unions mostly. Even the multi service choices in Alberta are swinging away from CN; in most cases moving to trucks or CP because of the load they put on contracts. Fill 50 cars and you get a deal kind of thing.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:37:33 +0000

You’d think that would give them a competitive advantage. Is there something else about CN because of which merchandisers wouldn’t want to go with them?

By: cyberclark

cyberclark — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:16:03 +0000

The west coast port Alberni is on CN hooks; the only rail into the place and because of this there has been little interest in the port because CN is the only carrier and merchandisers do not want to be on the CN hooks.