The CN - KCS Merger, With JJ Ruest And Pat Ottensmeyer

CN President and CEO JJ Ruest and Kansas City Southern President
and CEO Pat Ottensmeyer discuss the two railroads’ pending merger
in detail with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono. How
confident are the two chief executives that the Surface
Transportation Board will approve their jointly filed voting trust
application? What will the capital investment and operating impacts
be for KCS while the company is in trust? If the voting trust is
not approved, what happens next? Would CN and KCS proceed with a
merger application without one? KCS’s New Orleans-Baton Rouge line
is the only stated overlap, which Ruest says will be divested if
the merger is approved, and which was an anticipated condition of
merging. Are CN and KCS anticipating any other conditions? And
what, and where, are the most significant growth and service
improvement opportunities for the combined railroad? Podcast
sponsored by The Greenbrier Companies, Virtual Sample Railcar.