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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Lets see, For 200 million, lets suppose you buy say, 25 new MK1500Ds...at 1 million each, that leaves you 175 million,,,so at a average of 1 million per mile, you can buy 175 miles of railroad, forgeting the salries of employees, insurance, maintainance of buildings, administration cost, (did I mention insurance?) cost of fule, sand, oil, (55 gallon drums Texaco lube aint cheap) and on and on... You gotta raise a lot more that 200 million, althought that might get you a vote or two on UP"s board of directors, maybe... Ed [/quote] $200M would give you a decent shot at the KCS. $15.00/share on friday. So if you put in $150M of your stake into KCS that's be 10Million shares or just under 1/6th of the 62,674,000 shares outstanding. I'm sure you'd get some directors and perhaps even control, with ca***o spare... LC
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