MANAGEMENT

Let the train take the strain

After a long career as a railroad executive, culminating as head of operations for Wisconsin Central and its global subsidiaries, Jim Fisk thought he’d seen everything rail-based systems could possibly do.

 Operating costs have been lower than operating a fleet

Operating costs have been lower than operating a fleet

Then, one day in 2010, Fisk visited Sudbury, Ontario to witness a demonstration of an autonomous, computer-controlled, electric-powered ore haulage system called rail-veyor. "I'd never seen anything...

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