Today, Railway Age announced that the 56th annual recipient of the
Railroader of the Year Award is CN President and Chief Executive
Officer Jean-Jacques “JJ” Ruest, leader of one of North America’s
best-performing Class I railroads.
“JJ Ruest took a railroad plagued with service
problems and serious network capacity shortages and implemented
aggressive capital investment and service quality programs,” said
Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono. “These efforts
have produced outstanding results, in terms of traffic growth and
profitability. As examples, CN’s engineering team completed more
than 80% of expansion projects while the network was under heavy
traffic. And in Ruest’s first few months as chief executive, CN
hired hundreds of new line employees in train and engine service,
laying a strong foundation for the railroad’s continued success.
Our Railroader of the Year sees strong growth opportunities ahead,
across multiple commodities and new supply chain services.”
“On behalf of the entire CN team, I am extremely
proud to accept this honour,” said Ruest. “The North American rail
industry plays a critical role in our economy. Our human talent,
our deployment of technology and infrastructure are what make our
industry supply chain services so relevant to all the customers who
depend on us.”
JJ Ruest was appointed CN President and CEO in
July 2018 after having served as Interim President and CEO since
March 2018. He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief
Marketing Officer since January 2010, with responsibility for
providing strategic direction and leadership for CN’s Sales,
Marketing and CN Supply Chain Solutions groups. Ruest joined CN in
1996 as Vice President Petroleum and Chemicals. He was appointed
Vice President Industrial Products in 2003, Vice President
Marketing in 2004, and Senior Vice President Marketing in June
2006. Prior to that, Ruest worked for 16 years at a major
international chemical company.
Ruest holds a Master of Business Administration
degree in Marketing from HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal) and
a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Chemistry from Université
de Sherbrooke. He also completed the executive program of the
University of Michigan Business School and CN’s Railroad MBA
program.
Railway Age will formally present JJ Ruest with
the Railroader of the Year Award at the Union League Club of
Chicago on March 12, 2019, where the presentation has traditionally
taken place during the Western Railway Club dinner.
Railway Age’s
Railroader of the Year Award
The Railroader of the Year Award was initiated by Modern
Railroads magazine in 1964 as the “Man of the Year” award. Railway
Age acquired Modern Railroads in 1991 and has presented the award
annually since then.
• 1964: D. W. Brosnan, Southern Railway System
• 1965: Stuart T. Saunders, Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
• 1966: Stuart T. Saunders, Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
• 1967: Louis W. Menk, Northern Pacific Railway
• 1968: William B. Johnson, Illinois Central Railroad
• 1969: John W. Barriger, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
• 1970: John S. Reed, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway
• 1971: Jervis Langdon, Jr., Penn Central Transportation Co.
• 1972: Charles Luna, United Transportation Union
• 1973: James B. Germany, Southern Pacific Transportation
Co.
• 1974: L. Stanley Crane, Southern Railway System
• 1975: Frank E. Barnett, Union Pacific Railroad
• 1976: Dr. William J. Harris, Jr., Association of American
Railroads
• 1977: Edward G. Jordan, Conrail
• 1978: Robert M. Brown, Union Pacific Railroad
• 1979: Theodore C. Lutz, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority
• 1980: John G. German, Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.
• 1981: Lawrence Cena, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway
• 1982: A. Paul Funkhouser, Family Lines Rail System
• 1983: L. Stanley Crane, Conrail
• 1984: Hays T. Watkins, CSX Corp.
• 1985: John L. Cann, Canadian National
• 1986: Raymond C. Burton, Jr., Trailer Train Co.
• 1987: Willis B. Kyle, Kyle Railways
• 1988: Darius W. Gaskins, Jr., Burlington Northern
• 1989: W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Amtrak
• 1990: Arnold B. McKinnon, Norfolk Southern Corp.
• 1991: Mike Walsh, Union Pacific Railroad
• 1992: William H. Dempsey, Association of American
Railroads
• 1993: Raymond C. Burton, Jr., TTX Co.
• 1994: L. S. “Jake” Jacobson, Copper Basin Railway
• 1995: Edwin Moyers, Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
• 1996: Robert D. Krebs, AT&SF, and Gerald Grinstein,
Burlington Northern
• 1997: Paul M. Tellier, Canadian National
• 1998: David R. Goode, Norfolk Southern
• 1999: Edward A. Burkhardt, Wisconsin Central Transportation
Co.
• 2000: The Railroad Worker (“Railroader of the Century”)
• 2001: Michael R. Haverty, Kansas City Southern Railway
• 2002: E. Hunter Harrison, Canadian National/Illinois
Central
• 2003: Richard K. Davidson, Union Pacific Railroad
• 2004: Robert J. Ritchie, Canadian Pacific Railway
• 2005: David R. Goode, Norfolk Southern
• 2006: Richard F. Timmons, American Short Line & Regional
Railroad Association
• 2007: William E. Wimmer, Union Pacific Railroad
• 2008: Stephen C. Tobias, Norfolk Southern
• 2009: Michael J. Ward, CSX
• 2010: Matthew K. Rose, BNSF
• 2011: Wick Moorman, Norfolk Southern
• 2012: David L. Starling, Kansas City Southern
• 2013: James R. Young, Union Pacific
• 2014: Joseph H. Boardman, Amtrak
• 2015: E. Hunter Harrison, Canadian Pacific
• 2016: Carl R. Ice, BNSF Railway
• 2017: Thomas F. Prendergast, New York MTA
• 2018: John C. Hellmann, Genesee & Wyoming
• 2019: Jean-Jacques Ruest, CN
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team
of approximately 25,000 railroaders transports more than C$250
billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business
sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to
consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000
route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C.,
Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the
metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary,
Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the Company’s website at
www.cn.ca.
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