April 2016 will be remembered decades from now as the month when Rollin Bredenberg retired as V.P., Capacity Planning & Operations Research at BNSF Railway.
Rollin was not only a railroader's railroader but he was also deeply involved with transportation issues in Texas. He served on a committee formed by the Texas Transportation Commission to make recommendations to TxDOT to prepare the department for the transportation challenges it is likely to face over the next 30 years.
Here's a RailwayAge story just published April 1, 2016:
Rollin’s contributions to the rail industry have earned respect and praise from the highest corporate offices, as well as from historically minded railway enthusiasts. Rollin says, “My planned last day in the office is 4/1/16,” but he’ll continue lending his unique insights well beyond that date for the benefit of BNSF.
During his college years in the 1960s, Rollin worked the summer months as a brakeman for Southern Pacific Railroad in Texas. His sharp comprehension of the geography, mechanics, and business of railroading elevated him to General Manager of SP’s Eastern Region in 1982 and then G.M of the Western Region in 1984. In the early 1990s, he was in charge of a special SP team dedicated to expanding business across the U.S.-Mexico border, a position where his fluent Spanish gained the confidence of Mexican railway officials and their shippers.
Rollin joined Santa Fe Railway in 1994, shortly before its merger with Burlington Northern Railroad. He became BNSF’s V.P. of Service Design & Performance in 1999, then V.P. of Capacity Planning & Operations Research in 2011. For evidence of Rollin’s guiding hand in the successful state of BNSF compared to other railroads right now, simply take note of the billions of dollars invested annually toward carefully-placed segments of new main track and sidings on both the Northern and Southern corridors, as well as changes to operations that have maximized traffic flow through areas where assets were previously being underutilized or overloaded.
Read more: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/bruce-kelly/the-day-rollin-bredenberg-and-i-changed-the-course-of-railroading.html?channel=50&Itemid=491
Rollin was not only a railroader's railroader but he was also deeply involved with transportation issues in Texas. He served on a committee formed by the Texas Transportation Commission to make recommendations to TxDOT to prepare the department for the transportation challenges it is likely to face over the next 30 years.
Here's a RailwayAge story just published April 1, 2016:
Rollin’s contributions to the rail industry have earned respect and praise from the highest corporate offices, as well as from historically minded railway enthusiasts. Rollin says, “My planned last day in the office is 4/1/16,” but he’ll continue lending his unique insights well beyond that date for the benefit of BNSF.
During his college years in the 1960s, Rollin worked the summer months as a brakeman for Southern Pacific Railroad in Texas. His sharp comprehension of the geography, mechanics, and business of railroading elevated him to General Manager of SP’s Eastern Region in 1982 and then G.M of the Western Region in 1984. In the early 1990s, he was in charge of a special SP team dedicated to expanding business across the U.S.-Mexico border, a position where his fluent Spanish gained the confidence of Mexican railway officials and their shippers.
Rollin joined Santa Fe Railway in 1994, shortly before its merger with Burlington Northern Railroad. He became BNSF’s V.P. of Service Design & Performance in 1999, then V.P. of Capacity Planning & Operations Research in 2011. For evidence of Rollin’s guiding hand in the successful state of BNSF compared to other railroads right now, simply take note of the billions of dollars invested annually toward carefully-placed segments of new main track and sidings on both the Northern and Southern corridors, as well as changes to operations that have maximized traffic flow through areas where assets were previously being underutilized or overloaded.
Read more: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/bruce-kelly/the-day-rollin-bredenberg-and-i-changed-the-course-of-railroading.html?channel=50&Itemid=491