The Trains News Wire has indicated Chief Operating Officer Jamie Boychuk has left the company.
Facebook comments from my acquaintences still with the company hope the closing door hit him in the posterior and thus drive him even further down the road. Conflict with Foote's replacement Heinrich is the reported reason - Heinrich wants to grow the company and service the customers and Boychuck didn't.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACD Conflict with Foote's replacement Heinrich is the reported reason - Heinrich wants to grow the company and service the customers and Boychuck didn't.
Many are suspecting he is going to end up with the UP.
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zugmann BaltACD Conflict with Foote's replacement Heinrich is the reported reason - Heinrich wants to grow the company and service the customers and Boychuck didn't. Many are suspecting he is going to end up with the UP.
Even before I scrolled down and read Zug's comment I thought with that attitude he could probably get on with UP.
Jeff
jeffhergert zugmann BaltACD Conflict with Foote's replacement Heinrich is the reported reason - Heinrich wants to grow the company and service the customers and Boychuck didn't. Many are suspecting he is going to end up with the UP. Even before I scrolled down and read Zug's comment I thought with that attitude he could probably get on with UP. Jeff
There have been a number of former CSX officials that have gone on to UP after their CSX days were over - Gerry Davis, Cindy Sanborn spring readily to mind, there are some others whose names I have forgotten.
Per a few DM's from a contact at UP he's going to take a break.. Supposedly. However Zug you're right if he does go with another road it will be UP.
SD60MAC9500 Per a few DM's from a contact at UP he's going to take a break..
Per a few DM's from a contact at UP he's going to take a break..
Good. He can take a nice long vacation up to Canada and revisit the scene of his greatest triumph: The BC Rail yard in Prince George.
https://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2007/r07v0213/r07v0213.html
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SD70Dude SD60MAC9500 Per a few DM's from a contact at UP he's going to take a break.. Good. He can take a nice long vacation up to Canada and revisit the scene of his greatest triumph: The BC Rail yard in Prince George. https://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2007/r07v0213/r07v0213.html
Was he the GM or the Belt-pac operator?
The report describes him as the "area superintendent", the one who was operating the beltpack when it ran away.
This was during an attempt to speed up and otherwise 'improve' switching operations in Prince George. Details the report does not mention are that a regular yard crew refused to do this same move so Jamie decided to show them a thing or two, and that upon returning to the yard office after the crash he made some comment to the effect of how it was a good thing that this had happened to him because he could not be fired (he was one of Hunter's favourites).
CN moved him to Chicago for a while after this until the heat died down, but he eventually returned to Canada and at different times was the General Manager in both Edmonton and Winnipeg.
SD70DudeThe report describes him as the "area superintendent", the one who was operating the beltpack when it ran away. This was during an attempt to speed up and otherwise 'improve' switching operations in Prince George. Details the report does not mention are that a regular yard crew refused to do this same move so Jamie decided to show them a thing or two, and that upon returning to the yard office after the crash he made some comment to the effect of how it was a good thing that this had happened to him because he could not be fired (he was one of Hunter's favourites). CN moved him to Chicago for a while after this until the heat died down, but he eventually returned to Canada and at different times was the General Manager in both Edmonton and Winnipeg.
Worked with a Chessie transportation official who had similar thoughts about doing a job as he was the President's son. Brow beat a crew to make a move that the crew had refused to do, until he threatened to relieve them on the spot and charge them with Insubordination. Crew then mad the move as the official intended and it resulted in several hundred thousand dollars to the customers equipment and product as the crew had told the official it would. Officer then charged the crew with making a unsafe switching move.
Two weeks later the official was in the coal fields of Kentucky.
SD70Dude CN moved him to Chicago for a while after this until the heat died down, but he eventually returned to Canada and at different times was the General Manager in both Edmonton and Winnipeg.
I noticed that on his linkedin profile. After that wreck he was sent to Urbana-Champaign for a year. CN then sent him back up north to Calgary.
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