From CSX update: Takeaways from the March 1 investor conference — analysis by Tony Hatch, Progressive Railroading Dennis Wilmot, President & CEO It has been a year since Hunter Harrison was named CEO of CSX promising an overhaul, improved service, and a "reformation" of rail operations. [...]
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know." This whimsical quote by Groucho [...]
Dennis Wilmot, President & CEO Tradition! This popular song in Fiddler On The Roof begins with central character Tevye crying out “Tradition!” six times. He sings this in answer to a simple question he asks, “How do we keep our balance?” In addition to keeping our balance traditions also help to provide stability, [...]
Joe Chrien, Vice President Sales & Marketing The election is over and President-elect, Donald Trump, will be sworn in just after noon on January 20th, 2017. Many people are still having trouble understanding how our elections work, especially when an election is decided and the winner doesn’t have the popular vote, but [...]
Dennis Wilmot, President & CEO When will rail carload volumes finally start to show a comparative increase instead of weekly and monthly drops? Will this trend turn around soon? These were the initial questions I posed in last month’s column entitled, “Where’s The Freight?”, which also was the theme for the Northeast [...]