CP's Hunter Harrison accepts Railroader of the Year Award

摘要

With more than 400 of his railway industry colleagues in attendance, Canadian Pacific CEO E. Hunter Harrison accepted Railway Age's 2015 Railroader of the Year Award at Chicago's Union League Club on March 10, carrying on a tradition that began in 1964-the year after Harrison began his career at age 19 as a carman/ oiler on the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) while attending college in Memphis. Harrison is a two-time recipient of the award, winning in 2002 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the recently merged CN and Illinois Central. This time around, he came out of retirement to lead a remarkable turnaround at CP, which prior to his arrival had been languishing in last place among North America's "Big Seven" Class I's, in terms of performance.