These positive trends in pricing and better returns are likely to continue for years, maybe decades.

Grain cars are already in high demand, and were before the hurricane hit. There is not a lot of extra capacity to move grain over the longer routes to the Pacific Northwest.

We started working with a couple of guys that we're really excited about, we've sort of assembled this team of producers, and we'll just say that it's going to be amazing.

It is a very interesting piece, he says. It has been around a long time and this is a particularly good, vital and lively production full of laughs, gayety and a lot of wit. I think part of the intrigue of the play and the plot is the relationship with Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. Pickering is always there as a kind of buffer, soother of egos, perhaps. And it's just a very good dramatic piece of theatre.

Senior Burlington management have been saying since March that if the moratorium is (upheld), the deal is in trouble. (The court decision) last Friday was the big event.

We've seen upside in all the railroad stocks over the next year, ... remains the cheapest railroad in our universe.