People / 100 years / Meetings March 7, 2018
JEFF LYTLE
Railroad Day on Capitol Hill 2018
CIT Rail
High profile: CIT Group Inc. named Jeff Lytle, a 22-year vet-
eran of the railcar leasing industry and currently a senior vice president at CIT Rail, as President of the division, effective April 1, 2018. Currently, Lytle is senior vice president in charge of leasing for CIT Rail’s tank, plastic hopper and boxcar railcar portfolios. Lytle will report to CIT Chairwoman and CEO Ellen R. Alemany and serve on the company’s Executive Management Committee. George Cashman, President of CIT Rail, has elected to retire in June 2018, and will work with Lytle over the coming months to ensure a smooth transition. Prior to joining CIT Rail, Lytle was Senior Vice President of Sales for GE Rail for nine years. He also held several management positions at Ashland Chemical. In related news, Mike Jones, who previously led the company’s Equipment Finance business, was named President of the Business Capital unit. He joined CIT in 2016 as managing director, Equipment Finance.
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anadian Pacific realigned its Sales and Marketing team, adding Coby Bullard as Vice President Sales and Marketing for ECP and Merchandise. Bullard comes to CP from C.R. England and Crest Logistics, where he was most recently President, Intermodal, and also worked at BNSF. Eileen Pedante-Stone leads the Grain and Fertilizers business unit as Vice President. Stone joins CP from UPS Freight, where she had more than 25 years of experience in sales and marketing. Jonathan Wahba, who joined CP in February 2017 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Intermodal and Grain, will now lead Sales and Marketing for Intermodal and Automotive. Scott Hudson has been named Senior Transit and Rail Manager in the Dallas office of WSP USA, formerly WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, the engineering and professional services consultancy. Prior to joining
WSP, he was a project manager in the Fort Worth office of AECOM, providing project management and engineering for transportation projects, primarily freight railroads and rail transit. Harsco Rail has promoted Allen Branham to Vice President of its North America Sales and Global Contracting Services division. Branham has more than two decades of experience with Harsco Rail, most recently as Director of U.S. East Sales. Walter J. Winzen, founder and chief executive of Transportation Products Sales Company (TPSC), died at home Jan. 19. Winzen founded three companies that serve the North American rail industry: Transportation Products Sales Company in 1986; Automated Railroad Maintenance Systems (ARMS) in 1990; and Railroad Battery Services (RBS) in 2006.
Washington, DC Information: www.aslrra.org
March 4-7, 2018
RAIL EQUIPMENT FINANCE CONFERENCE La Quinta, CA https://www.railequipment finance.com/
March 13, 2018
Railway Age Rail Freight Business Development Conference Union League Club of Chicago Information: http://www.railwayage. com; conferences@sbpub.com.
March 27-28, 2018 23rd Annual AAR Research Review
Cheyenne Mountain Resort Colorado Springs, CO and Transportation Technology Center Pueblo, CO Information: https://www.aar.org/.
April 7-10, 2018
ASLRRA 2018 Connections Convention Gaylord Opryland Nashville, TN Information: www.aslrra.org; kcassidy@aslrra.org.
April 26-27, 2018
100 years ago in railway age gazette February 1918
Nation’s Railroads Now Under Government Control The railroads of the United States passed from the control of their individual managements and into the possession and control of the government for the period of the war … under the direction of W.G. McAdoo, President Wilson’s Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of Railroads. The Director General issued several general orders to emphasize the fact that the railroads are to be operated as a coordinated system.
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Light Rail 2018, presented by Railway Age and RT&S Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Baltimore, MD http://www.railwayage.com; conferences@sbpub.com.
June 6-7, 2018
Railway Age Fourth Annual Rail Insights Conference Union League Club of Chicago Information: http://www.railwayage. com; conferences@sbpub.com. February 2018 // Railway Age 33