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MIKEBUTTS	DIVIDEND & RAIL WILL COME BACK WITH UPTURN	Love	October 06, 2009
barrons3	Herzfeld's fund also holds shares of Watsco (WSO), a Florida air-conditioning distributor; Norfolk Southern (NSC), which connects to the now privately held Florida East Coast Rail Road at Jacksonville; and MasTec (MTZ), a Florida-based infrastructure company founded by prominent Cuban-American Jorge Mas Canosa.	Love	May 23, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Oh, and speaking of not bottoming, Norfolk Southern (NSC) was bearish last night about the prospects for a bottom, and its stock is rocking up!" (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=d519e6e3-cb8f-446f-9a6d-9bf300fd23ea" target="_blank">"So Much Strength," 4-22-09</a>)	Love	April 23, 2009
barrons3	On stocks of companies that have significantly lowered earnings guidance, buy defensive puts. This works for Texas Instruments (TXN), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Eaton (ETN), International Paper (IP), National Semiconductor (NSM), Sandisk (SNDK), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Massey Energy (MEE), Parker Hannifin (PH), Estée Lauder (EL), Time Warner (TWX), CSX (CSX) and Norfolk Southern (NSC).	Love	April 18, 2009
High Dividends	Raised their dividend to 0.34 an increase of 6.0% payable on March 10 to shareholders of record on Feb. 6.	Love	January 31, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"No, I'm not recommending any of the rails. Even though they're at their lows, they're too levered to commodities and autos."	Love	January 15, 2009
sarah z	Itching to buy the rails here, as they are all on the ropes. They have come down gigantically and are perceived as companies that are just getting crushed by the weakening economy. It's a continual crushing for Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), Burlington Northern (BNI) and CSX (CSX), all excellent, well-run companies. All have big declines in traffic and all have had hot-money share bases, particularly UNP and CSX. The latter, in particular, has hedge fund money up the wazoo, and it was interesting to see how a hedge fund that is on the board got in trouble with the short-swing profit rules that don't allow insiders to sell stock at a profit within six months. To me, the group represents the epitome, though, of why it is so hard to buy. Whenever I buy an economically sensitive stock -- and are these ever economically sensitive -- I want protection from the vicissitudes of this vicious market. That means dividends, and without accidentally high yields that represent a nice tradeoff vs. Treasuries, I think you are at the mercy of hedge fund sellers and mutual fund sellers. That means you have to wait, maybe even appreciably, despite the flirtations with the 52-week lows before you can pull the trigger on these. Obviously, it is so rough out there that if you buy say, CSX, with a 2.9% yield, you could be taking your life into your hands every time the estimates -- which are most likely too high -- get cut. In fact, I wouldn't be able to touch it until it gets to $22 using my discipline, which most likely means I am going to miss the darned thing. That's the price, however, of the discipline of buying even the finest companies, like the rails, which are true moneymakers. This is a market where you need more than just a "good company," particularly because the estimates that you might be betting on to "create" a price-to-earnings multiple could prove to be dead wrong. These companies are linked to car, timber, coal, chemical, steel and fertilizer freight. Every one of those commodities is on a remarkable downswing. That, to me, means, don't touch 'em until you have that support. You sure don't have it now. I say, no thanks.	Love	January 14, 2009
barrons3	Gartman said he is sticking to a "boring" strategy of buying stocks with dividends and infrastructure plays that have been around for years like Deere(DE), Dow Chemical (DOW), Alcoa (AA), GE (GE), Freeport McMoRan (FCX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), ConocoPhillips (COP) and US Steel(X) and get an average of 5.95% in dividend, and have an average P/E ratio of 5.7.	Love	January 07, 2009
barrons3	Norfolk Southern(NSC) and other rail companies are "locked in a lot of deals, but remember, you're shipping coal -- Peabody(BTU) says coal's hanging in, but I don't think that could happen -- you're shipping fertilizer, obviously lumber's not going anywhere, oil's not going anywhere," Cramer said. "I mean, what are you shipping that's going to hold up next year?"	Love	October 23, 2008
HotCopywriter	IBD rated A+	Love	October 08, 2008
barrons3	Four companies among the 20 transportation stocks also delivered dividend enrichments: Burlington Northern (BNI), Landstar System (LSTR), Norfolk Southern (NSC) and Union Pacific (UNP). Burlington Northern and Union Pacific, however, distributed their payouts on the first day of the fourth quarter. And CSX (CSX), FedEx (FDX) and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), while paying out more in the third quarter, had all voted their increases in June.	Love	October 04, 2008
Steve Old Boy	Norfolk Southern operates 21,000 miles of track in the eastern U.S., with a $28 billion market cap. It hauls coal (24% of revenue), intermodal traffic (20%), plus a diverse mix of automobile, agriculture, metals, chemical and forest products (9-12% each).	Love	August 17, 2008
barrons2	Once the momentum guys turn -- and they are turning on CSX (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP) and Burlington (BNI) -- they just don't stop. It is terrible to have to sell down 4, but the pattern has been that there is another down-4 day coming tomorrow, and then another, and then still one more ... punctuated by a plus-2 in the middle.	Love	August 14, 2008
barrons2	Norfolk Southern Tuesday raised its quarterly payout for the second time this year, to 32 cents a share, up 10% from 29 cents. Stockholders of record Aug. 1 will receive the new dividend Sept. 10. The ex-date is July 30. Yield: 1.84%. With January's hike from 26 cents a share, Norfolk Southern has enriched its payout 23% thus far in 2008. Taking into account predecessor companies, dividends have been paid without interruption since 1901.	Love	July 26, 2008
High Dividends	2.0%	Love	July 10, 2008
FoxJohnSix	someone has to move something to the rest of the world so we can make a buck	Love	June 02, 2008
FoxJohnSix	someone has to move something to the rest of the world so we can make a buck	Love	June 02, 2008
FoxJohnSix	someone has to move something to the rest of the world so we can make a buck	Love	June 02, 2008
barrons2	But then look at Burlington Northern's (BNI) stock. Look at Union Pacific's (UNP) stock. Or Norfolk Southern (NSC). That's coal. That's coal going overseas. That's coal going to China. Our coal is as good as any coal when it comes to the unregulated markets. Coal hasn't appreciated nearly enough to get less competitive than oil. It is much more easily transportable than natural gas.	Love	May 22, 2008
macchef43	i like the railroad	Love	April 16, 2008
sweetlilbunny	BNI IS A BETTER LONG.	Hate	March 15, 2008
barrons2	Buy Norfok Southern (NSC) and CSX (CSX) as a play on U.S. coal exports, Jim Cramer said on CNBC's "Stop Trading!" segment Friday.	Love	February 07, 2008
EnoOnmai	test 1	Love	January 02, 2008
MadMonk	Meets/exceeds my earnings, balance sheet, and cash flow criteria(s).	Love	January 02, 2008
drichardson	large holding	Love	December 01, 2007
Fentonian	W. Buffet likes RR, so do I	Love	November 19, 2007
High Dividends	14.59	Love	October 18, 2007
Jason R	In an amended 13F, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed it sold close to 3 million shares in Norfolk Southern Corp. and a 7,411,200 share stake in Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP). Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway held 6,362,800 shares of Norfolk Southern and 10,513,100 shares of Union Pacific shares at the quarter ended March 31, 2007. Lately, Buffett has been raising his stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe.	Love	October 16, 2007
jhb05	Railroads are in vogue. Good performing company with plenty of business prospect.	Love	September 30, 2007
dianasawyermail@yahoo.com	warren buffet	Love	September 11, 2007