Merger Talk, With MidRail LLC Chairman Gil Lamphere

MidRail LLC Chairman Gil Lamphere offers his views on the
competition between Canadian Pacific and CN to acquire Kansas City
Southern, discussing the details of voting trusts and the role of
the Surface Transportation Board, and other railroad merger-related
issues, with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.
Lamphere has nearly 40 years of experience as a principal investor
and financier in rail industry and other private equity
transactions. He has headed four private equity firms and has
extensive operational experience as a chairman and/or board member
for a wide range of publicly traded and private companies. Lamphere
is the former Chairman of the Illinois Central Railway, Co-Founder
of MidSouth Rail Corporation and a former board member of CN, CSX
and Florida East Coast Railway. He led teams and boards that
bought, managed and changed operations at those railroads, and at
Southern Pacific, with alumni leading CP, creating gains for
investors in excess of $2 billion.