THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT WARREN BUFFETT’S BIG BET ON BNSF AND THE FUTURE OF THE US OF A.
What is MUCH more important is what he DID NOT bet on:
Warren DID NOT bet on Autonomobiles – and there are a lot of them for sale.
Warren DID NOT bet on Airlines – and all of them are hurting.
Autonomobiles and Airlines are hurting and transcontinental rail has potential for the reasons EMR spells out in TIMBERFENCE TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.
Perhaps Warren has seen the light at the end of the tunnel?
EMR grew up 200 feet from the main line of the northernmost of the three transcontinental routes that Warren now controls – The Great Northern, one of the two reasons for the “N” in BNSF.
When in the seventh grade, the strawberries EMR picked by 2 PM in the Northern Rocky Mountain Urban Support Region rode those rails and were on Minneapolis – St. Paul New Urban Region (nee Minneapolis – St. Paul Industrial Center in the early 50s) in time to put on breakfast tables while they were still fresh.
Just-in-time delivery is not the exclusive province of airplanes and trucks.
Now if:
Warren turns his attention to the settlement patterns in the BNSF terminal areas, and
Works to evolve multi-functional transfer points near the Clear Edges around the Core of New Urban Regions that provide across the platform transfer of GOODS from transcontinental rail to shared-vehicle systems,
And that system delivers GOODS at night to Community and Village scale distribution centers,
We will know Warren has seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
EMR