According to insider information from Bloomberg, the bonds will expire in 2110, and will yield about 6 percent to maturity.
As the terms of the debt offering have not been finalized, the final terms may be subject to change.
One-hundred-year-term bonds have previously been sold by large corporations before by Walt Disney Co. and Norfolk Southern itself, which sold 2105-maturity bonds back in 2005.
Investors who purchase these bonds are making a long-term bet that interest rates may stay deflated in the future. Norfolk is the country’s biggest transporter of coal from mines in the Mid-Atlantic region.
