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Ok, well for starters I want to tell all other NS fans to not throw a cow yet or have a stroke!! If it is true that UP is buying some NS stock, they could be doing it for a number of reasons other than buying out NS. 1, They could be doing it to have more of an insider's view of NS so that they can understand NS better in the event that a future merger might occur, 2, so that they could have a head start in outbidding another railroad that might try to get NS, 3, to invest in stock that they think will eventually go up in value so that they can sell it later and make money off of it, or 4, they just want some stock to have a little controlling interest of NS. <br />It doesn't appear as if anything major is going to happen or will happen. I know we've all had round after round of merger talks in the last few months. And I still believe that no major merger will happen anytime soon. Give it at least 5 years before anything might happen. I could be wrong but I am pretty for sure that I'm right. Another thing, if NS and UP merge, it doesn't really matter who takes out who, they would both have to treat each other as equals and the paint schemes they have now would probably disappear for both railroads, so a merger is not a good idea for that reason and for a lot of other reasons. <br />Also, BNSF Railfan, if only your Uncle thinks that he might have heard about this stock purchase and nobody else on this entire forum hasn't heard about it then it's probably not going to happen. I'm not saying you're fibbing to us, I'm just saying that if it was true surely of all the people on this forum somebody else would have heard about it. But don't get mad at me because I know you're just reporting what you thought you heard, which is ok.
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