Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

Now it’s time to buy CSX stock.

I was wrong. Ever happen to you? Lol. UP confirmed it’s NS

The Merger is going to be worse than the UPRR and SP. They will cut TEY jobs and have everyone going all over the merged system and plugged like a constipated colon with bricks.

Bring ya sleeping bags 🎒 and lunch boxes to camp out

Berkshire is sitting on a ton of cash the UP does not have. Berkshire needs to announce it's buying the CSX which would most likely force UP into buying the NS with all its issues. UP and NS deserve each other.

Ok the problem with the UP absorbing the NS would be legal troubles. The east palestine derailment issues would be absorbed by the UP as well and any future legal battles from that point on. Those issues don't go away just because that company was bought out. The problem with the CSX was that it was run for a very short time by Hunter Harrison. You know the guy that trained Vena into what he is today. The NS and the CSX both have a lot of issues that have to be sorted out before it should ever be considered. A merger would be great for some(executives), but bad for many(employees). The last time I checked, both NS and CSX have better service than the UP does according to their metrics. The UP has more issues than they can handle on their own network. Vena isn't addressing these issues at all. Is a merger good or bad? I don't know, but history tends to repeat itself. If a merger did happen, then I could see it being just like the SP merger. That merger got the UP into really deep doo doo with the government. Why should I believe at all that another UP merger would be any different than the last. The UP needs to address the issues they already have in their own network, before they take on a foreign network with its own set of issues. You fix the problems you already have first! You don't add to the problems you already have by buying someone else's problems.

@b9 you’re right, see what they did to RIO grande. Shut down all their shops and don’t use barely any of their lines anymore. Big a-s storage paradise. Won’t sell Tennessee pass to someone that has to put millions in to get it running. They only care about the shareholders and not us

@OP I fully agree CSX will be the one.

Again, these yahoos can’t run their own railroad, but they’re trying to buy another one to destroy!

I wondered if the first nod being towards NS was a ploy and CSX was actually the preferred prize. But then I looked at my manager and the latest mess he has created solely on his own and how he continues to make it worse the more he tries to fix it. Thats when it hit me, there is no strategy, no business vision, no forethought into markets, nothing. Management doesnt care or think about service, management doesnt care about safety, management doesnt care about stakeholders in communities their decisions impact, they dont care about any of those things. Management cares and works on only one thing,,,, image. Their IMAGE! The feebler in charge cant get the hedge fund guys money wrapped up in UP stock to go up. But those same hedge fund vampires have huge amounts of CSX and NS also. This is the scrapping of the bottom of the barrel for the wall st guys, use UP to increase their shares value in the other railroads. That is their last trick before pulling their fangs out of the almost expired body that is UP. Wether there is a merge or not, I dont care. I just want to hit rock bottom so as to end the games, end the continual postponing of acknowledging and address what is truth. End all the different lies of we have enough people, we dont need to inspect that so often, these regulations arent needed, AI is bringing about improvements, we need single man crews to compete w/ trucking, short lines service customers better,
blah blah blah.

Regardless, if one transcon merger is approved, BNSF will merge with the other east coast line.

A lot more work for the 75 percent erst that they hired out of the Barrrios and Ghetttos that don't know nothing but this a supposedly a pay check.
Technology and AI will take most of the work in do time....

Fu--k You Jim Vena