E. Hunter Harrison
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Ewing Hunter Harrison was a railway executive who was the CEO of Illinois Central Railroad, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, and CSX Corporation. He is known for introducing precis
E. Hunter Harrison
Precision railroading
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Precision railroading or precision scheduled railroading is a concept in freight railroad operations pioneered by American railroad executive E. Hunter Harrison in 1993 and has since been adopted by n
E. Hunter Harrison
…CEO of Illinois Central Railroad (IC), Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), and CSX Corporation. He is known for introducing precision scheduled railroading to the companies he ran. He died on December 16, 2017, two days after taking medical leave from CSX. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1944, Harrison began…
Precision railroading attempts to minimize the number of times on each journey a freight car must be sorted in classification yards such as this one in Fort Worth, Texas.