Getting to know Glenn T. Hay

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Each month AREMA will feature one of our committee chairmen. We are pleased to announce that the June featured chairman is Glenn T. Hay, chair of Committee 18 - Light Density and Short Line Railways. AREMA: Why did you decide to choose a career in railway engineering? Hay: I was graduating in the spring of 1979 from Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering with options in transportation, construction and geotechnical and not having a clue on what to do. I interviewed with everyone who came to school looking for a civil engineer from pipeline companies, ship builders, consultants, mining companies, contractors, U.S. Forest Service and railroads. I had five offers for employment, including Conrail and Missouri Pacific Railroad. MoPac was the lowest monetary offer, but provided, what I considered important, a formal 22-month training program that resulted in my ultimately being assigned to the construction department. AREMA: How did you get started? Hay: I spent 10.5 years with the Missouri Pacific and UP Railroads with time in the office working on drawings and calculations for siding extensions, piggyback facilities and auto unloading facilities and was given the opportunity to go out and perform the on-site construction management of some of these facilities. Some of the projects I worked were the reconstruction and reconfiguration of Neff Yards double hump into a single hump in Kansas City, the rehabilitation and reconfiguration of the North Little Rock Hump Yard, including the replacement of the lap switches; reconstruction and construction of piggyback and auto unloading facilities in Chicago and Dupo, Ill., Memphis, Tenn., Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans and Shreveport, La., Muncie, Kan., and Rolla, Colo.