Ackman/canadian pacific

[Rareearth]

MB...EXACTLY

Expect more of the same ...for as long as the RR can maintain.

For all the Gov't haters this should be where Gov't steps in.
- national financial security
- govt responsibility is for infrastructure, if RR can't do it then...

[Rareearth]

The problem is those profits the shareholders are enjoying = nothing compared to the billions it has cost Western Canada

[tweety]

Maybe the govt should limit how much grain you can produce.

[Rareearth]

The go t is in full control. Taxation, limiting the profitability.

The way the financial security is through the trade balance. Has nothing from Cotton sunk in?

[farmaholic]

Where's hopalong?

Nationalizing it would turn it into a bloated bureaucracy that would likely never be profitable. But to leave it the way it is and have it nearly crippling sectors of the Western Canadian economy isnt right either. Regulate the bastards if they don't want to play fair, by the looks of their "achievements" they hardly need to increase rates, unless all tbe gains came from only cutting
expenses (ya, right).

How about re-investing some of that money in increased capacity or some maintenance (like trimming the forest{on the prairies, lol} along some of their right of way, so traffic can see them coming
around blind corners.

Can you imagine the power you would have if it was
just you and a couple of other guys farming all of Western Canada? Don't forget to lift your boot off the throat of your customers and suppliers when they start gasping and turning purple, you might need them to stay in business---for your sake.

[bucket]

Wonder if he could explain 1997. And the elimination of the crow rate and branch line abandonment.

Wasn't that all about facts and that farmers were supposed to get some of the benefits of efficiencies.

[boarderbloke]

More capacity will come in the shape of tank cars , not hopper cars.

[fjlip]

Well said farmaholic...

[Hopperbin]

Buyers can pre position grain any time they want. We should have surge capacity in my opinion. That is the problem.

[Hopperbin]

I take it the sane types are responsible for the ****ednup shute openning on the drag auger undernthe pit. Muther ****er at adm watson fir the last two years. I said get a farmer to go under there and fix it. Was told we have been under there hundreds of times. I dont think so. Its not ucking hard.