Archived "The Hagestad Sandhouse Gang" Programs
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 10/01/2009 |
Richard Harnish
Executive Director
Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition
|
"Chicago to St. Louis – in an Hour and 52 Minutes"
Flyer 
Presentation
|
| 09/02/2009 |
Ray Lang
Senior Director: Government Affairs
AMTRAK |
"Development of High Speed Rail on AMTRAK's Chicago Hub and Planning for New Services from Chicago" |
| 08/06/2009 |
Gerald Hanas
General Manager, Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) |
"NICTD Accomplishments, Trends in Ridership, Major Capital Projects and Future Plans"
Presentation |
| 06/23/2009 |
Robert W. Hart
Senior Vice President & Product
Delivery Sr. Officer-Credit
Specialized Industries
Bank of America |
"Lending Money to Small Railroads"
Seminar Flyer
Presentation
|
| 05/21/2009 |
Joseph Swanson
President, Jos. Swanson & Co.
Clinical Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
John Hudson
Professor & Director, Geography Program
Associate Director, Environmental Sciences programs, Northwestern University |
(Special Joint Sandhouse Gang Meeting and TC Seminar):
"Competition in the U.S. Freight Railroad Industry: Prices, Costs, Productivity & Capacity Constraints"
Flyer (Incl. Abstract and Bios)
Available: Executive Summary of Final Report prepared for the STB
Final Report |
| 04/30/2009 |
Michael Iden
General Director
Car & Locomotive Engineering
Union Pacific Railroad |
"Engines of Change: Locomotives
and Fuels of the Future"
Presentation |
| 03/26/2009 |
Tom Power
Former CFO and CEO of the Milwaukee Road |
"Milwaukee Road Bankruptcy: Lessons Learned and Its Relevance to the Current Business Climate"
Listen to Presentation |
| 02/19/2009 |
David Burns
Railroad Industrial Engineering Consultant |
A Special Joint Sandhouse Gang Meeting and TC Seminar: "The Future of Chinese Railways"
Seminar Flyer (Incl. Abstract and Bio)
Presentation |
2008 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/04/2008 |
Adam Inselbuch - BIO
Managing Director, Investment Banking
Credit Suisse, New York |
Sandhouse Gang Luncheon Meeting:
"Annual Financial Update of
the Transportation Industry"
Presentation
|
| 11/18/2008 |
Jim McClellan - BIO
Vice President, Woodside Consulting |
Presentation: "This Too Shall Pass"
Rail Freight and Passenger Services in Light of the Recession and Mounting Deficits
[Full Presentation !!! 24.3 Mb]
[Slides 1-19] - [Slides 20-42] |
| 10/28/2008 |
Field Trip to Belt Railway of Chicago Clearing Yard
Hosts: Patrick J. O’Brien,
President, Belt Railway of Chicago |
Photo Album |
| 09/16/2008 |
Ron Sucik - BIO
The Tioga Group |
"Containerized Intermodal Goods Movement Assessment (CIGMA)"
with special emphasis on the rail impacts of the study.
Presentation (3.5 MB)
|
| 08/12/2008 |
David Rohal - BIO
SVP and COO, RailAmerica
President, of the Florida East Coast Railway |
A discussion with the Sandhouse Gang of the Transportation Center
Download one of the following:
A. One big presentation ( ~12Mb !!! ) : [1-74]
B. In 3 smaller parts:
[1-22] -
[23-44] -
[45-74]
C. 6 slides in 1 page ( ~7.5Mb ) : [1-74] |
| 06/25/2008 |
Christopher P.L. Barkan
Associate Professor
George Krambles Faculty Fellow
Director - Railroad Engineering Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Recent Developments in North American
Railroad Tank Car Safety
Presentation (53.1 MB !!!)
|
| 05/12/2008 |
William C. Sippel
Fletcher & Sippel LLC |
"What in the World Is Going On at the STB?"
Presentation (0.13 MB)
|
| 04/09/2008 |
Tom Hoback
President & CEO, Indiana Railroad Company
Erin Cully
Student Intern
|
"The Intern and the CEO"
Presentation (0.97 MB)
|
| 02/27/2008 |
Jim Kveradas
Director for Corporate Development for the CN
|
Proposed purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Railroad by the Canadian National
Presentation (Kveradas)
Presentation (Giblin)
|
| 02/21/2008 |
Mike Shiffer, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago)
|
Emerging Technologies and Mass Transit Planning: Moving Bits to Move People
Presentation (4.5 MB)
|
| 01/28/2008 |
Mike Blazsak
Senior Counsel to Earth Tech, Inc.
|
Future of the Rail Carload Business: Loose-Car Railroading
Presentation (3.9 MB)
|
2007 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/06/2007 |
Anthony Hatch
Independent Transportation Analyst & Consultant |
The Rail Renaissance - Endangered??: A Financial Analysis of the Rail Industry
Presentation (1.2 MB)
|
| 11/08/2007 |
Tim Murphy
Senior Associate, Global Commercial Transportation, Booz Allen Hamilton |
Rail Freight Operations: A Brighter Future with ECP Brakes
Presentation (1.9 MB)
|
| 10/23/2007 |
Frank Wilner
Director of Labor Relations at the United Transportation Union |
Labor looks at U.S. Railroads |
| 09/12/2007 |
Jim Giblin
Transportation consultant |
Trains vs. Trucks - The Saga Continues
Presentation (222 kB)
|
| 07/25/2007 |
Lee Clair
Senior Partner
Norbridge Inc. |
The New Normal: Restructuring the North American Transport Industry
Presentation (500 kB)
|
| 06/06/2007 |
Mark Hemphill
HDR Engineers |
Experiences Advising the Iraqi Republic Railways |
| 05/08/2007 |
Peter Turrell
Former head of the
Transportation Department for the
Taiwan High Speed Rail Project |
Construction and Plan Implementation of the World's Largest High Speed Rail Project
Presentation (2 MB)
Article from Civil Engineering (1 MB)
|
| 04/19/2007 |
Linda Morgan
Partner & Chair, Transportation Practice Group, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC;
Former Chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Surface Transportation Board. |
Transportation Policy and Politics
Presentation (45 kB)
|
| 03/28/2007 |
Reed Tanger
Transrapid International-USA
Kellogg School of Management, Class of 2007 |
The Transrapid Maglev System
Presentation (4.5 MB)
|
| 03/08/2007 |
Robert Pulliam
Tubular Rail Technology |
An Alternative Vision for the Future of Rail |
| 01/10/2007 |
Bruce Dahnke
SkyTech Transportation |
The Next Generation: Alternative Technology to Supplement the Transportation System
3-D rendition of SkyTech's proposed technology
http://www.animagrapyh.com/content/skytech.html |
2006 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/08/2006 |
Lee Clair
Senior Partner of Norbridge, Inc. |
Coal Transportation Issues and Opportunities
Benchmarking Study (583 kb)
 |
| 11/28/2006 |
Mike Garcia
Chief - Rail Engineering Unit, Illinois DOT. |
Illinois High Speed Rail Track Project - Mazonia to Springfield (118 miles).
ftp://ftp.dot.state.il.us/pub/railroads/
username: public
password: idot
When another window opens: "FTP Log On" - just press OK - and the presentation should open. (No password).
|
| 10/03/06 |
Rail Panel
Sandhouse Gang member Norm Carlson organized a panel of senior railroad executives
to discuss the role railroads play in international logistics and the global economy.
Chair: Norm Carlson
Carlson Consulting International
Art Shoener,
President & CEO
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Mort Fuller, Chairman & CEO
Genesse & Wyoming Railroad Co.
Tom Hoback, President & CEO
The Indiana Rail Road Company
Charles Swinburn, CEO
RailAmerica, Inc.
Bob Gallamore, The Gallamore Group
Former director of the Transportation Center
|
Swimming with the Giants in International Waters
Shoener(4.18 MB)
Hoback(7.17 MB)
Swinburn(76 kb)
|
| 09/28/2006 |
Mike Blaszak
Chicago Attorney:
Senior Counsel, Earth Tech Inc.
|
Reregulation: The Struggle for Prosperity
Presentation (266 kb)
|
| 08/14/2006 |
Rick Harnish
Executive Director
Midwest High Speed Rail Association
|
High Speed Passenger Trains on the Illinois Amtrak Network |
| 07/17/2006 |
Norm Carlson
Chairman
Carson Consulting International, LLC
|
Transforming Innovation at the Illinois Central Electric
Train From Randolph (Publication) (1.0 MB)
|
| 06/12/2006 |
Robert E. Gallamore
Former Director
Transportation Center
Northwestern University
|
"Enduring Enterprise" The Development of
the North American Railroad in the Twentieth Century
Presentation(548 kb)
|
| 05/10/2006 |
Earl Wacker
CSX Superintendent
Bill Thompson
Association of American Railroads CREATE Railroad Program Manager
|
Update on Chicago's CREATE Program
Presentation(1.36 MB)
Article
appearing in Progressive Railroad, July 2006: "Creative Solutions needed to finance CREATE" by Jim Giblin
|
| 05/02/2006 |
David L. Gunn
Past President and CEO of Amtrak
|
National Transportation Policy and Intercity Rail Passenger Service
"Amtrak Reflections": Interview with David Gun appearing
in the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2006 |
| 03/22/2006 |
Phil Pasterak
Midwest Regional Manager of PB Transit and Rail Systems
David Kralik
New Start Project Leader - Star Line at Metra
|
The Star Line
Presentation(8.4 MB)
|
| 02/13/2006 |
J. Reilly McCarren
Chairman of the Arkansas Missouri Railroad, and former President
and CEO of the Wisconsin Central Railroad System
|
Impact of Weight Limits on Small & Medium Railroads
Presentation(392 kb)
|
| 01/17/2006 |
Ian Savage
Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
|
Trespassing and U.S. Railroads
Presentation(233 kb)
|
2005 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/09/2005 |
Jim Valentine
Managing Director at Morgan Stanley
|
A View from Wall Street
Presentation
(1.3 Mb) |
| 11/14/2005 |
David Young
Author and former transportation reporter for the Chicago Tribune
|
The Iron Horse and the Windy City |
| 10/27/2005 |
Dr. Michael F. Gorman
School of Business
University of Dayton |
Optimization Approaches to Gang Schedulilng at BNSF |
| 09/30/2005 |
Steven D. Van Beek
Executive Vice President, Policy
Airports Council International- North America
|
Connecting Rail and Airports:
Principles and Applications
Presentation(636k)
|
| 08/29/2005 |
Joe Schwieterman
Director
Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development |
When the Railroad Leaves Town: Geographic Perspectives on Rail Line Abandonment |
| 07/15/2005 |
Michael Blaszak
Attorney
|
More on Railroad Mergers
Presentation (66k)
|
| 06/24/2005 |
Eric Jakubowski
Director, Market Development
Canadian National Railways |
Railroad Routing Protocols: A Paradigm Shift for the Industry
Presentation(305k)
|
| 05/19/2005 |
Henry Posner III
Chairman
Railroad Development Corporation |
Dark Territory-RDC's Long, Strange Trip to the Fringes of the Regional Railroad Movement
Presentation(1.4 Mb)
|
| 04/22/2005 |
James C. LaBelle
Deputy Director
Chicago Metropolis 2020 |
The Metropolis Freight Plan: Delivering the Goods
Published Report |
| 03/15/2005 |
Tom Finkbiner
Chairman, President & CEO
Quality Distribution, Inc.
|
A New Transportation Agenda for America in the Aftermath of 11 September 2001
published white paper(257k)
|
| 02/15/2005 |
Norman West
University of Illinois-Chicago |
The Future of Chicago Regional Freight Intermodal
Yards: Site and Design Criteria
Presentation(369k)
Paper sumitted to TRB,
January 2005(195k)
"Design, Operation of Future Intermodal Yards: A survey" |
| 01/21/2005 |
David Burns (e-mail) |
The North American Freight Car Market 2005
Presentation(364k)
|
2004 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/17/2004 |
James Giblin
Vice President
Transportation Consulting Services Corp.
|
Trucks vs. Trains: What Really Happened and Why
Presentation(69k)
|
| 11/09/2004 |
W. Robert Moore
HNTB
Earl Wacker
Superintendent, Chicago Transportation Coordination Office |
Create Mapping Project
Presentation (2.86M)
|
| 10/7/2004 |
Christopher Barkan
University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana |
Optimizing the Design of Hazardous Materials Vehicles |
| 09/14/2004 |
Joe Noffsinger
GE Transportation Systems |
Wireless remote operating systems for locomotives
and yard management
|
| 07/19/2004 |
Ian Savage
Associate Department Chair
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
|
Why Has Safety Improved at Rail-Highway Grade Crossings?
Paper
|
| 06/17/2004 |
William Harsh
Mercer Management Consulting
|
Railroad Service Measurement
Presentation
|
| 05/17/2004 |
Mark Walbrun
Vice President Transystems |
Planning the Western Terminal at O'Hare
Presentation (568K)
|
| 04/19/2004 |
Edward A. Burkhardt
President
Rail World, Inc. |
Observations of the Startup of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic
and Overseas Railroading
Presentation
(1.34Mb) |
| 04/13/2004 |
Randolph A. Resor
Vice President
Zeta-Tech Associates, Inc. |
The Business Benefits of PTC
Presentation
|
| 02/9/2004 |
Lee Clair
Senior Partner
Norbridge, Inc. |
Motor Carrier Hours of Service Regulation and Its Impact on Railroads
Presentation
|
| 01/9/2004 |
George Avery Grimes, PE
University of Illinois
Railroad Engineering Program |
The Paradox of Rising Investment and Falling Value
Presentation
Abstract of thesis
|
2002 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title and Links |
| 12/10/2002 |
Thomas G. Hoback
President and CEO
The Indiana Rail Road Company |
Creative Applications of Technology in Railroads |
| 11/22/2002 |
Lynn A. Anderson
Vice President
Dakota. Minnesota, and Eastern RR Corp. |
Status of Line Extension and Merger with IMRL |
| 06/28/2002 |
James C. LaBelle
Senior Advisor
Chicago Metropolis 2020 |
Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Metropolis Plan
Presentation
|
| 05/21/2002 |
Ian Savage
Department of Economics
Northwestern University |
Fatigue and Safety: The Economics of Market Choices, Public Policy, and Regulatory Enforcement
Presentation
|
| 04/__/2002 |
James J. Valentine
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley
|
A View from Wall Street
Presentation
|
| 03/26/2002 |
Mark Walbrun
TransSystems |
Chicago Central Rail Hub
Presentation
|
| 02/25/2002 |
Richard Harnish
Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition |
High Speed Rail to O’Hare |
| 01/28/2002 |
Michael W. Franke
Assistant Vice President – Amtrak
|
Midwest High Speed Rail |
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