Fitz Middleton

Good morning. It's my pleasure to welcome Norfolk Southern to the conference today. Thank you guys for being here. I'm Fitz Middleton. I'm on the BofA specialist sales team. I look at industrials. Given the pending transaction, I'll be sitting in and hosting the Q&A instead of Ken Hoexter this year.

BofA has the privilege of welcoming Norfolk Southern to the conference for the 22nd year out of the 25 years that Ken has hosted the event. Pleased to have Jason Zampi, CFO; Michael Barr, VP, Treasurer and IR, are both here for their second time; and Luke Nichols IR is here for the fourth time. Here we go. We appreciate the partnership and your participation in the conference over the years.

Fitz Middleton

So Jason, let me turn it over to you maybe for an update on some of the key takeaways you want us to learn from today.

Jason Zampi
Executive VP & CFO

Yes. Thanks for having us here. As you mentioned, we've got a long and great history with Bank of America and coming to this conference. So we're pleased to be here again this year. I'd say we've really got a situation here where we're working very well with our customers to help them grow. And we're obviously right in the middle of a very transformative merger to unlock additional value. So it's an exciting time for us as a company.

I think 3 key takeaways, I would say, is first, we're executing on the plan we've laid out. So that's really focused on safety, service