Posts by Ron Sucik
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UP-NS Merger Dominates MARS 2026 Winter Meeting
Despite a snow squall that snarled traffic and shut down Chicago’s airports for a couple of hours, the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) opened its 2026 Winter Meeting with…
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Takeaways, MARS Summer Meeting
In general, 2024 was “a tough year” for the industry, but the situation “has shifted far more toward the positive and will continue to do so in 2025.” That’s the…
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NARS 2025 Annual Meeting Highlights
The North American Rail Shippers Association (NARS) held its 2025 Annual Meeting at the Swissotel in Chicago. The meeting opened with a Chicago history lesson from Chicago’s Tic Tok Historian…
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Report from MARS
The Midwest Association of Rail Shippers held its Winter meeting in Schaumburg, Ill., Jan 14-16. Katie Farmer, President and CEO of BNSF, opened the conference with her usual crisp and…
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Summer Sojourn to MARS
On July 9, MARS (Midwest Association of Rail Shippers) celebrated its 100th anniversary with its Annual Summer Meeting at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisc. The conference opened…
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Are You Ready for 2024?
Rail Equipment Finance 2024: Does anyone remember the saying “In Like a Lion—Out Like a Lamb”? Intermodal loadings ended 2023 on a strong note and started out 2024 positive as…
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TTX’s Tom Wells on Driving Down Railcar Maintenance Costs
Despite the below-freezing inclement weather, a respectable number of hearty Midwest railroaders gathered at the Union League Club of Chicago to attend the January meeting of the Western Railway Club.…
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Highlights From the MARS Winter 2024 Meeting (Updated with Alan Shaw Video)
The Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) at its 2024 Winter Meeting at the Westin Chicago Lombard celebrated its 100-year anniversary with an attendance of 940, exceeding last year’s record-setting…
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Report from MARS Summer 2023 Conference
“Delivering Supply Chain Success with Rail Innovation and Sustainability” was the theme of this year’s Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) Summer Conference in Geneva, Wisc., July 11. Other than…
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REF 2023: The Intermodal Environment
RAIL EQUIPMENT FINANCE 2023: Last October, the Wall Street Journal declared the ship backlog at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach (POLALB) to be over, providing three reasons: When traffic…
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Report From MARS 2023
The Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) held its 259th meeting recently at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, Ill., with a record attendance of more than 900. Chicago is the…