Reading & Northern, tapping that market demand, has seen anthracite grow from 15% of its business to 23% in 2010. “The Road of Anthracite” isn’t just a nod to what was, but reflects a growing business segment, as Asian demand for anthracite begins to strain Asian resources. Indeed, “energy” is and may be a big component of the railroad’s future, much as it has been in the past. “On to the next one,” quipped one company executive, not unkindly, concerning the railroad’s latest honor, indicating awards were a marker of the company’s energy and drive-but not the goal. Railway Age previously honored the Reading & Northern as its 2002 Regional Railroad of the Year, and the award is featured among other citations on the wall of the railroad’s headquarters (and station building) in Port Clinton, Pa.īut don’t expect the railroad to rest on the laurels captured during its first 26 years. The regional railroad was a winner of the 2010 American Short Line and Regional Association Marketing Awards Competition-“a great honor,” according to CEO Andrew M. It’s not the first time the Reading & Northern has been recognized for drive. The continuous excellence pursued by Pennsylvania’s largest privately owned regional railroad, in operation since 1983, has garnered it Railway Age’s 2011 Regional Railroad of the Year award. “We don’t like to let good people go,” Michel asserts. It’s also the human energy of the railroad’s roughly 150 full-time employees, and a company commitment to job security that withstood even the Great Recession in 2009. To accomplish its goals, it partners with other regional railroads, short lines, and Class I’s. energy demand through its movement of coal and its contributions to the rapidly growing hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) natural gas market in Pennsylvania, with both markets likely to grow in the years ahead.īut it’s not just the energy moved by 572 open hoppers, 40 Western coal cars, 250 covered hoppers, or 11 gondolas across 320 route-miles that make R&N move, according to President Wayne Michel. Sporting the moniker “The Road of Anthracite,” the R&N aggressively serves U.S. Count on the Reading & Northern Railroad to contribute to any solution.Įnergy drives the Reading & Northern Railroad Co.-from without and from within. energy options in the coming decades will need to be plentiful and diverse. Report: More Active BART Projects Than Ever.TSB Rail Safety 2021-2022 Year in Review.Transit Briefs: Caltrain, Metrolinx, NYCT, Sound Transit.NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Amtrak, UP M/W Machine Collision.Amtrak, CSX, NS, Port to STB: Extend Mediation.Transit Briefs: MBTA, CTA, BART, Amtrak, MDOT, RTD.Transit Briefs: Amtrak, Broward Commuter Rail Link, LACMTA, MARTA.Transit Briefs: TTC, Metrolinx, NJ Transit, LA Metro.
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