It couldn't be because the gub'mint could control the movements of the masses along with food, other consumable, ... Nah
Before we get there, Obama’s buddy Warren Buffett has been buying railroad stock:
Buffet is big in the Crony green capitalism!
Buffett Bets Big on Railroads’ Future
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKINNOV. 3, 2009
America’s best-known investor, Warren E. Buffett, is making his biggest bet yet on the nation’s economic future by buying, of all things, a railroad.
After deftly capitalizing on the financial crisis with a series of bold deals, Mr. Buffett on Tuesday agreed to buy the 131-year-old Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation.
A railroad might strike many people as a bit old-fashioned — more 19th century than 21st. But Mr. Buffett is wagering that as the economy revives, so will the demand for goods to be shipped by train. Burlington Northern carries coal and timber from the West, grain from the Midwest and imports arriving directly from Mexico and Canada, as well as through California ports.
And railroads, Mr. Buffett contends, are transportation for a fossil fuel-challenged future, since trains are generally more efficient and greener than trucks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/04deal.html?_r=0