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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (175297)	12/29/2012 9:45:12 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206101

Your Post illustrates these Times, shaping capital...the question to be answered is Does this trend have the legs to sustain itself? To sustain itself, the infrastructure owners and value added contributors, must do things they had previously been unwilling to do;innovate in ways such as take the weight out of the rail car moving the oil, one of the biggest inefficiencies in the present system is that these locomotives are asked to pull too much weight..... filament wound tanker cars could be a revolution in sustaining competitive advantage for rail...failing this, the trend will be fleeting. I remain committed to Hexagon for the contest......even though the necessary steps will take more time, the expertise to accomplish this resides at Lincoln Composites, a Hexagon composites company. Just 50 minutes from Omaha, the home of BRK.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (175297)	1/4/2013 4:08:31 PM
From: Dennis Roth	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206101

Shale-oil boom means big demand for rail tank cars star-telegram.com ...Buffett's Union Tank Car is working at full capacity, and Icahn's American Railcar Industries has a backlog through 2014. Trinity Industries, the biggest rail car producer, began converting wind-tower factories last year to help meet demand for train cars that can transport the petroleum product... ..."The investment thesis of oil by rail will be something that will continue for many years because of the fact that infrastructure doesn't exist in many of these newer areas," said Eric Marshall, director of research at Dallas-based Hodges Capital Management...