Buffett’s $15 Billion From BNSF Show Railroad Came Cheap

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Days after Warren Buffett announced his $26.5 billion buyout of railroad BNSF, he insisted that he’d paid a steep price to own a business that would benefit his company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., over the next century.

“You don’t get bargains on things like that,” he said in a November 2009 interviewBloomberg Terminal with Charlie Rose that aired on PBS. “It’s not cheap.”