Kathryn Farmer, 28 years with the firm. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.freightwaves.com/news/bnsf-names-new-ceo/amp
GrampKathryn Farmer, 28 years with the firm. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.freightwaves.com/news/bnsf-names-new-ceo/amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.freightwaves.com/news/bnsf-names-new-ceo/amp
I had thought Cindy Sanborn would have been the first woman selected as CEO of a railroad. Cindy 'stalled' out at being named Chief Operating Officer of NS in July.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Illuminate ... for sure.
I've known Katie for about 25 or 26 of her years with BN and BNSF. She's an excellent choice and should do a great job!
Curt
I wonder if people commented on Carl Ice's physical appearance when he assumed the same post...
Congrats to Ms Farmer. I don't think Ms Sanborn stalled out at NS.. she may yet become CEO at NS or elsewhere. Both are uber achievers.. no doubt we'll hear alot from them in the years ahead.
Psychot I wonder if people commented on Carl Ice's physical appearance when he assumed the same post...
Depends on whether someone compared him to a locomotive...
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Well it's a good thing they didn't because all the heat from those comments would've melted Mr. Ice..
tree68 Psychot I wonder if people commented on Carl Ice's physical appearance when he assumed the same post... Depends on whether someone compared him to a locomotive...
Sorry, I was referring to Miningman's post.
Psychot tree68 Psychot I wonder if people commented on Carl Ice's physical appearance when he assumed the same post... Depends on whether someone compared him to a locomotive... Sorry, I was referring to Miningman's post.
In either case a sexist comment. If the individual were not a woman, no comment about appearance would have been made.
Wish her all the best.Somewhere I am most sure "Mookie" has a big smile.
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I wonder what sort of attitude will filter down to frontline managment, will she be more or less like Hunter Harrison than Carl Ice and Matt Rose?
That's what should really matter here.
At least they are promoting from within, and not going for some high-priced overblown windbag from another railroad or industry.
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Katie's personality is more like Matt Rose's. She is the antithesis of EHH.
SD70Dude I wonder what sort of attitude will filter down to frontline managment, will she be more or less like Hunter Harrison than Carl Ice and Matt Rose? That's what should really matter here. At least they are promoting from within, and not going for some high-priced overblown windbag from another railroad or industry.
Juniata Man Katie's personality is more like Matt Rose's. She is the anthesis of EHH.
Katie's personality is more like Matt Rose's. She is the anthesis of EHH.
That's what I like to hear!
BaltACD Psychot tree68 Psychot I wonder if people commented on Carl Ice's physical appearance when he assumed the same post... Depends on whether someone compared him to a locomotive... Sorry, I was referring to Miningman's post. In either case a sexist comment. If the individual were not a woman, no comment about appearance would have been made.
+1 Well said!!
BaltACDIn either case a sexist comment. If the individual were not a woman, no comment about appearance would have been made.
Charlie Hebdo+1 Well said!!
Gee, I'm sorry I offended your PC sensibilities. I was handed a "straight line" and made a joke out of it. It just so happened that the person in question is female. I'd probably have done the same thing if it was a male... Nothing sexist intended.
+1 No problem. I think Balt was gently reminding you. And this PC epithet is often a defense of sexist and racist language.
tree68 BaltACD In either case a sexist comment. If the individual were not a woman, no comment about appearance would have been made. Charlie Hebdo +1 Well said!! Gee, I'm sorry I offended your PC sensibilities. I was handed a "straight line" and made a joke out of it. It just so happened that the person in question is female. I'd probably have done the same thing if it was a male... Nothing sexist intended.
BaltACD In either case a sexist comment. If the individual were not a woman, no comment about appearance would have been made.
Charlie Hebdo +1 Well said!!
We, as males, rarely understand how the other gender takes our comments, especially when those comments are dismissive in nature. It has been the culture that we exist in to be dismissive of women - 'You run like a girl'; 'You throw like a girl'; and on and on. A woman that acts with authority is said to be 'pushy or bossy'; a man that acts with authority is said to be 'a leader'. Commenting on a woman's apperance in commenting on the announcement of that woman achieving the 'top rung' of a normally male dominated organization is just another form of being dismissive to the acomplishment.
I just hope she'll change the BNSF name to Santa Fe and likes steam.
Gramp I just hope she'll change the BNSF name to Santa Fe and likes steam.
Yeah..I'm gonna go with a probable "nope" on both of those.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Some speach can cost one their job.
This in todays Chicago Tribune:
Sports Media
WSCR-AM bounces McNeil after tweet
Station decrees as ‘unacceptable’ his ‘humiliating tone’
McNeil
By Phil Rosenthal
Dan McNeil is out at WSCR-AM 670, a day after a tweet in which the sports-talk host compared ESPN sideline reporter Maria Taylor’s attire on “Monday Night Football” to that of an adult film awards show.
Danny Parkins, a onetime intern for McNeil and his afternoon co-host since March 2018, will work solo for the time being.
Rachel Williamson, Entercom Communications regional president, announced McNeil’s exit in a Tuesday memo to WSCR staff that spoke of the power of words and the responsibility to choose them wisely.
McNeil’s “tweet, and its degrading and humiliating tone to a fellow female broadcaster, was unacceptable,” Williamson wrote, offering an apology “to all who were offended by Dan’s words, especially Maria.”
Parkins said he agreed with everything in Williamson’s note, but he was shaken because he was close with McNeil and the ouster was abrupt.
“Actions have consequences,” Parkins said, opening Tuesday’s show. “I can understand completely Entercom did what it did, and I feel terrible that Maria Taylor debuts on ‘Monday Night Football’ — talk about a career milestone and accomplishment — and somehow she gets caught up in this nonsense. That’s not right.
“Nobody can condone that. So, yeah, the industry needs to be better. We need to be better.”
Reached by the Tribune, McNeil declined to comment.
McNeil posted Monday on Twitter, along with a picture of Taylor reporting from that night’s Steelers-Giants game: “NFL sideline reporter or a host for the AVN annual awards presentation?”
AVN is an abbreviation for Adult Video News.
Facing flak, McNeil deleted the tweet, which was preserved by the website Awful Announcing and others. But that did little to quell criticism.
Taylor — who was making her NFL sideline debut — not only responded to McNeil on Twitter after the game but also took the opportunity to promote her upcoming NBA work.
“Well Danny Dearest if you would like to continue making sexist comments about me…please bring your misogyny with you to the NBA Countdown double header I’ll be hosting tomorrow night. Hey ladies remember you can wear whatever you feel confident in!” Taylor tweeted.
Taylor has been with ESPN since 2014 as a reporter, analyst and studio host and is known for her work on “NBA Countdown,” “College GameDay,” the NCAA Women’s Final Four, “Get Up” and SEC Network’s “SEC Nation,” among other programs.
“I thought Maria handled it with a lot more class than I would have handled it,” Laurence Holmes said Tuesday on his WSCR show , which precedes the program McNeil hosted with Parkins.
“Maria Taylor is a fantastic broadcaster and she is one of the people that I have a lot of faith is going to do good things for the future of this industry. The industry as a whole, and sports radio in particular, is now at a point of reckoning where we have to understand that the way that we see the world — through a male perspective, and mostly through a white male perspective — there needs to be change.”
McNeil’s comment came less than a month after WSCR reporter Bruce Levine earned a brief suspension for a quickly deleted tweet that included an uncharacteristically political and vulgar image.
McNeil’s tweet about Taylor was a reminder of the dearth of female hosts in Chicago sports radio and was reminiscent of a 2015 remark on Twitter by WSCR midday host Dan Bernstein , who subsequently apologized for his comment about a TV sports reporter’s breasts.
“Always disappointed, never shocked,” tweeted former WSCR host Julie DiCaro, whom the station dropped in an April cost-cutting purge .
Myron Medcalf, a senior ESPN college basketball reporter, tweeted: “You and all the good ol boys in this business keep coming for Black women, @DannyMac670. Why? I’m just curious.”
McNeil was 2 1/2 years into the third WSCR stint of his 30-year-plus Chicago radio career, working afternoons with Parkins. Bosses at the station were confident McNeil’s worst tendencies were behind him.
“He’s hungry. He’s humbled,” WSCR executive Mitch Rosen said in 2018, shortly after bringing him back. “Listen, a month ago, he was selling cars in Northwest Indiana. He’s hungry to prove to everybody that he still is on top of his game, which I believe he is.”
While McNeil showed he could be thoughtfully introspective and vulnerable, including talking about his struggle with addiction and mental health, his history never was completely forgotten.
Perhaps his most serious infractions came at WMVP-AM 1000, which suspended him in 2007 for a series of indiscretions , culminating in calling a local female TV executive a “female dog” on the air. The station previously suspended him for an ugly on-air spat with a co-host.
“I’d like to think I’m more patient,” McNeil said upon his latest return to WSCR. “I’m more willing to be deferential.
“I’ve always tried to not take myself too seriously, to varying degrees of success. That’s an eternal discipline. I think I know what I want more than I did five years ago.”
McNeil, who has written columns for both the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, is a former staff writer and columnist for The Times of Northwest Indiana. He got his radio start as a producer at WGN-AM 720 in 1985. He later served as executive producer for Chet Coppock and Bulls broadcasts on WLUP-AM 1000, getting his first on-air role as a sidekick and fill-in host and as a contributor to Steve Dahl and Garry Meier’s program on the station.
His best-remembered work was as Terry Boers’ co-host on WSCR’s “Heavy Fuel Crew” from 1992-99 and on WMVP’s “Mac, Jurko & Harry” with John Jurkovic and Harry Teinowitz from 2001-09.
“Mac and I go back a long time, so this news is not easy,” Parkins told listeners. “I hope you can understand that the pain you’re hearing in my voice is not at all condoning Mac’s tweet or what he did or what he said. You know how sometimes people you love can do things you hate? I think you guys can all relate to that.”
charlie hebdo +1 No problem. I think Balt was gently reminding you. And this PC epithet is often a defense of sexist and racist language.
Perception and reality rarely run in the same circles.
Like I said, had the new CEO been a male, no one would have accused me of being sexist. The comment was made that usually stories about people such as the one cited have a picture of the person. This story had a picture of a locomotive. Am I to be condemned for posting a picture of the actual person in question? And for saying that said person is better looking than a locomotive? That could be something of a slam, if you think about it...
Mac has been a blowhard on the Chicago sports scene for years with minimal contributions. He's had problems before because of his attitudes slipping out. No loss there.
Nope and nope. But if the name were changed, just shorten it to Burlington.
I am looking forward to continue to see BNSF grow in to the future. Ms. Farmer certainly has the breadth and depth of knowledge of the company to run it.
Some interesting developments over the last few years at BNSF include extending its reach east of Chicago with the haulage trains to North Baltimore, and expanding its reach to the southeast by adding and then increasing its haulage trains to Atlanta with Norfolk Southern added to the Atlanta mix with CSX.
If those continue to be succcessful, maybe we'll see further frequencies and perhaps extensions under Ms. Farmer.
Ms. Farmer might be the one to build the second Missouri River bridge at Sibley, MO and finally complete the double-tracking of the Southern Transcon.
Her tenure is going to be eventful and impactful, that is for sure.
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