The current issue (May 2015) of Trains Magazine has an article entitled Railroads turn in strong 2014 financials. A box down in the corner compares Class 1 2014 financials. In Billions of $ of operating revenue, the railroads are listed as: UP $24B, KCS $2.6B, CN $9.7B, CP $5.3B, CSX $12.7B, NS $11.6B. Two things stand out from this list. First, UP's operating revenues seemed to be about equal to CSX and NS combined! Second, and more importantly, there is no BNSF listed! Obviously, UP merged BNSF, and THEY- the powers that be- don't want us to know! I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say the paint scheme for the newly formed merger will be Armour Yellow, and the railroad will be called Union Pacific.
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For BNSF numbers check Berkshire Hathaway's annual report. Or did you forget that Warren Buffet bought it.
Why the Trains piece didn't include it I don't know. Maybe because it ISN'T a low-hanging fruit stand-alone statistic.
As for the revenue disparity between NS, CSX and UP, check route mileages...
Chuck
Since it was an article about Class 1's don't you think some mention should have been made about BNSF's revenues, as it's also a Class 1?
Yellow likely would be the color!
But, it is not likely regulators would allow it.
Warren Buffet strangely operating out of Omaha makes one wonder, though.
The motive behind Mr. Buffet and company buying BNSF, in my opinion, was the great financial promise of one-man train crews.
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Murphy Siding I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say the paint scheme for the newly formed merger will be Armour Yellow, and the railroad will be called Union Pacific.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say the paint scheme for the newly formed merger will be Armour Yellow, and the railroad will be called Union Pacific.
BNSF is privately held, there is no stock. Ergo: no listings. No need to issue reports.
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dakotafredNow, now, Murphy, remember U.P.'s evenhandedness when it merged S.P., the new name honoring the first name of U.P., the last name of S.P.
Shades of "we'll name it 'Pull' for me and 'man for you".
BroadwayLion BNSF is privately held, there is no stock. Ergo: no listings. No need to issue reports.
BNSF's revenue is hardly a secret. Page 13 of Berkshire's annual report for 2014 indicates it was $23.239 billion.
If nothing else, look for most if not all the rest of the railroads to follow the path of BNSF into private ownership.
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If the mysterious "They" are looking for something worthwhile to do I wish "They" would start making "Milk Shake" candy bars again!
I don't know why "They" stopped making them to begin with!
"Whatever happened to 'Milk Shake' bars? I used to love those things, they were great!"
"I dunno, 'They' don't make 'em no more!"
Use your favorite internet search engine and read the amount of info out there about the Milk Shake candybar, including many recipes to make your own, but apparently Hershey's now owns the rights to it and can't find the original recipe.
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And while "they" are at it, "they" need to bring back the Zero bar too!
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edblysard And while "they" are at it, "they" need to bring back the Zero bar too!
Loved it! A number of years ago they even stocked it in the candy machine at work. As I recall they were manufactured by the Hollywood Candy Co. from Centrailia, IL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Candy_Company
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Am I the only one that liked 7-up bars?
Dakguy201 BNSF's revenue is hardly a secret. Page 13 of Berkshire's annual report for 2014 indicates it was $23.239 billion.
Murphy Siding Am I the only one that liked 7-up bars?
yes.
D.Carleton If nothing else, look for most if not all the rest of the railroads to follow the path of BNSF into private ownership.
Firelock76 If the mysterious "They" are looking for something worthwhile to do I wish "They" would start making "Milk Shake" candy bars again! I don't know why "They" stopped making them to begin with! "Whatever happened to 'Milk Shake' bars? I used to love those things, they were great!" "I dunno, 'They' don't make 'em no more!"
Jeez, I never heard of a 7-Up bar. What were they like? What'd they taste like? Lady Firestorm's drawing a blank on this one too, but she knows what a "Skybar" is.
Hershey's lost the "Milk Shake" formula? Suuure they did. Excuses, excuses!
Never heard of a Horlick's Malted Tablet, I suppose they never made it to the part of New Jersey where I grew up. But I can appreciate your liking for them Zardoz, "Milk Shakes" used to be heavy on the malt, like a "Milky Way" on steroids!
Gee, here I thought you were going to say KCS merged with someone, which is why their amount, though lowest, is listed in 2nd place.....
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zardoz Firelock76 If the mysterious "They" are looking for something worthwhile to do I wish "They" would start making "Milk Shake" candy bars again! I don't know why "They" stopped making them to begin with! "Whatever happened to 'Milk Shake' bars? I used to love those things, they were great!" "I dunno, 'They' don't make 'em no more!" Do you remember the Horlicks malted milk tablets (in both vanilla and chocolate)? The were sooooooo tasty!!!!!!
Do you remember the Horlicks malted milk tablets (in both vanilla and chocolate)? The were sooooooo tasty!!!!!!
Having lived and worked in Racine and Kenosha, WI, I well remember Horlicks. Strangely enough, the last time I saw any sign of them was in the Kingston, Jamaica airport about fifteen years ago. Supposedly, they were making the malt tablets right there in Jamaica.
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*2014 "Railroad Annual Report R-1" to the STB, page 6, lines 41 and 42 (page 11 of 144 of the "PDF" version linked below); see:
http://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/surface-transportation-board-reports/pdf/14R1.pdf
Same report shows Total Railway Operating Revenues as $23,035,998 Billion (page 16, Line 13, of the same report = page 31 of 144 of the "PDF" version linked above); no idea why it's slightly different from the figure in the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report.
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Firelock76 Jeez, I never heard of a 7-Up bar. What were they like? What'd they taste like? Lady Firestorm's drawing a blank on this one too, but she knows what a "Skybar" is.
Total revenues will typically be larger than operating revenues because of miscellaneous other income such as interest earnings on cash balances, real estate rental revenue, gains on the sale of assets (such as a fully depreciated locomotive being sold for positive dollar amount), sale of scrap metal, etc.
Murphy Siding Firelock76 Jeez, I never heard of a 7-Up bar. What were they like? What'd they taste like? Lady Firestorm's drawing a blank on this one too, but she knows what a "Skybar" is. Seven-up bar was like 7 pieces of different chocolates out of a box of candy smooshed into 1 candy bar.
Seven-up bar was like 7 pieces of different chocolates out of a box of candy smooshed into 1 candy bar.
Interesting concept! But that sounds like another one that never made it to our neck of the woods. Oh well, it's a BIG country, I suppose they couldn't be everywhere.
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