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Chart: Commodity Types Carried by Major North American Railroads

Hi David,

I went on your site… more great data. I was very interested in the average yearly return on RRs data. When you divided those average returns on your site by the current stock price, you get a % Return by current $ share cost number. On that basis the top three "value" purchases based on today's share prices would be CSX (.84 %/$), CP (.76 %/$) and CNI (.75 %/$).

BNI, the second largest average return appears to be substantially over priced with a ratio of .41 %/$. Based on these numbers for BNI to have the same value as CSX its price per share would have to drop to $35.

Did you include dividends in your calculation of returns, or was it just stock price appreciation?

Chart: Commodity Types Carried by Major North American Railroads

David... do you have this data by the different Class I railroads?