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News for customers, employees and friends of the Louisville & Indiana Railroad

Fall 2015

Louisville & Indiana Railroad has once again earned the American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association’s (ASLRRA) Jake Award with Distinction for 2014.

This award is given to member railroads with no Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) reportable injuries for the previous year.

John Goldman, president of the L&I, said, “I believe the integrity, pride, and focus on safety by each employee is the key contributing factor, closely followed by quality efficiency testing, audits and open lines of communication.”

L&I Trainmaster Jeremy Kramer added, “The pride our employees exhibit in their job and their attention to detail contribute to safe work practices. Their concern for themselves and coworkers has helped develop a culture where everyone works safely.”

The Jake Award Program was created by Lowell S. “Jake” Jacobson, a Railway Age “Railroader of the

Year” recipient who wanted to recognize safety achievements in the short line railroad industry. The ASLRRA Safety Committee adopted the Jake Awards in 1999, continuing to reward the high safety standards of the short line railroad industry.

Three additional Anacostia Rail Holdings railroads also received safety awards. Northern Lines Railway received a Jake Award with Distinction. The Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad and Pacific Harbor Line both won Jake Awards by finishing the calendar year with an FRA frequency rate less than or equal to the industry average.

Injury-free: L&Iearns safety award

L&I receives GEFast Track Award

GE Transportation named Louisville & Indiana Railroad a 2015 Fast Track Award winner. The award is presented to customers like L&I that achieve measurable and exceptional success using GE Transportation’s software and solutions.

GE railroad software used by L&I includes Rail-Connect, RailDOCS and ShipperConnect. This software makes L&I safer and more efficient by:

• Eliminating carload errors;• Minimizing time spent managing carloads;• Automating track inspections;• Reducing manual data entry.

Leah Windell, customer service manager at the L&I said, “The use of GE’s software has increased the speed and accuracy of L&I’s reporting and reduced the amount of manual work by our customer service department. This has allowed us to improve managing our exceptions and find even more ways to automate our processes.”

The award was presented at the GE Transportation 2015 Client Conference, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2015.

Leah Windell, L&I’s customer service manager, accepts the Fast Track Award on behalf of the L&I from Pete McCabe, vice president of GE Transportation.

2014 Jake Award pin

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In an effort to promote crossing safety, L&I and In-diana Operation Lifesaver applied for and received a $20,000 grant from the Fed-

eral Highway Administration and Operation Lifesaver, Inc. The grant was one of thirteen that the FHA award-ed.

These funds will be used to raise awareness about the dangers near tracks and trains. Jessica Feder, executive director of Indiana Operation Lifesaver, said, “We will target communities along our route, reaching out to schools, driver education and law enforcement organizations, promoting the See Tracks? Think Train! safety message.”

Other grants were awarded to Operation Lifesaver organizations in various other states to spread the safety message through advertising via billboards, sporting events, television, and radio.

a message from our president

The Louisville & In-diana Railroad has been busy on many fronts. We have been working on the Southwind project to up-grade our main line, hir-ing additional employees to help with an increase in traffic, and looking for ways to add capacity.

While the preponder-ance of Southwind work

related to the upgrade has been behind-the-scenes up to this point, work in the field is underway. Installing 20 miles of new continuous-welded rail and grading improvements between Seymour and Austin should be completed in November 2015. At this time, the plan for 2016 is to finish the installation of con-tinuous welded rail between Seymour and Jeffersonville and to replace the Flat Rock River bridge in 2017.

Meanwhile, L&I is growing and we are identifying locations to create more capacity to better serve our customers.

Although this won’t happen overnight, finding ways to improve service to our customers is a top priority. This fall, we will start redesigning the main yard in Jeffersonville to improve the layout, achieve operational efficiencies and add value in the safety arena as well.

L&I has hired seven train & engine employees in the recent months to handle the increase in traffic and support work relating to the upgrade. I am also pleased to announce the addition of William Faulkner to the staff as trainmaster.

While meeting our customers’ needs is our foremost goal after safety, it is important for everyone to keep the big picture in mind and what the upgrade means to each of us: customers, employees and communities. We are a team and, speaking for the L&I, we will do our best to communicate our progress and any interim impacts on service. At the same time, we ask for a certain level of patience from all of us during this period of transition.

John D. Goldman

L&I receives Operation Lifesaver grant

A billboard along I-65 advocating train safety.

An L&I locomotive promoting Indiana Rail Safety Week, which took place August 24 - 29, 2015.

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Earlier this year, Lubrizol Corp. ex-panded their operations. They found they needed to transport more plastic resin used to make their plastic piping system components from their plant in Louis-ville to their customers. Thus began Lu-brizol’s working collaboration with L&I.

L&I was asked to shuttle the Lubrizol cars from Louisville to its Jeffersonville Transfer Yard. From there, First Class Services, a specialized bulk carrier, transloads the product out of the rail cars into trailers for delivery to customers.

First Class Services had been providing trucking services for the movement of Lubrizol product since the summer of 2014, distributing relatively small loads of resin by truck to their customers in multiple locations throughout the country. It was a natural fit that they be brought in to continue the partnership when this opportunity came about.

With 8,000 employees worldwide, Lubrizol is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway serving custom-ers in over 100 countries. Their products provide a range of chemical additive technologies, advanced specialty poly-mers, and oilfield chemistry and technol-ogy businesses.

First Class Services is owned by Randy Stroup and based in Lewisport, Kentucky. Their core business is liquid, dry bulk and hazardous material

commodities. First Class Services currently has over one hundred power units and 230 liquid and dry bulk trailers, serving a 1,000-mile radius from Lewisport.

Pat Ogle, vice president at First Class Services, said “We’ve had other business opportunities with Lubrizol, so our partnership with them was already established. This recent expansion is what established our relationship with the L&I.”

He added, “We see the L&I as a good business partner for First Class Services. There are opportunities to grow our busi-ness as well as the L&I’s.”

“As with all projects, the key to continued success is providing superior service,” said Scott Lurkins, director of marketing and sales at the L&I. “All three companies were able to sit around the same table and work out a smart deal that made sense for all parties.”

Lubrizol forms First Class partnership

Milestones

Zachary ColemanScott Lurkins

Jeremy KramerMichael KissiahJeremy PeacockAntoine PrestonAnthony Ritchie

Ben Wilson

The following employees reached a major milestone in 2015.

We thank them for their service and dedication to the L&I.

1 year anniversary

Floyd Rossman20 year anniversary

Charles Watson10 year anniversary

The L&I would like to welcome the following new employees, who have joined the ranks since April 2015:

Christopher Anderson, conductorCody Cox, conductorJohn Davis, engineerCody Eastridge, conductorWilliam Faulkner, trainmasterLucas Hostettler, conductorRay Palmer, conductorTristan Shafer, conductor

Christopher and John are Army veterans. Lucas, a recent Navy veteran, joined the L&I as a Department of Defense SkillBridge applicant. SkillBridge is a program that allows active transitioning service members to intern at a program where they will receive a certification useful to their future civilian careers.

Welcome New Hires

A First Class Services truck transloading a Lubrizol car.

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Although Louisville & Indiana’s Road-master James M. Connolly III joined the L&I team in January of 2013, he has been a railroader for more than half of his life.

“I was young when I started working for the Southern Pacific Railroad on the Oregon division,” he said of his more than 21 years on the railroad. “I grew up in a small railroad town in Northern California. All we had was the railroad.”

James had been working at Anacostia’s Pacific Harbor Line as manager of track maintenance since 2008. A few months after Michael Stolzman, then president of the PHL, became president of the L&I in 2012, he called on James to move his family to the Midwest. His wife, Stephanie, an accountant, agreed to the move. “We moved out here sight unseen. It’s been great – we love it!”

He believes that his five sons – Dylan (21), James IV (18), Derek (18), Dustin (16) and Cody (5) – have an interest in following him into the railroad industry. He said, “Growing up as a railroad family, it’s all we know. It’s 24 hours a day railroading at my house.”

While he considers railroading his hobby, James also enjoys hunting and fishing trip in his spare time.

What he enjoys most about working with the L&I is the opportunity he has been given to work on the Southwind project. “It’s not often one comes across a project of this nature. We’re rebuilding the railroad from one end to the other. I’m blessed to be a part of it.”

Connolly brings experience to the L&I

U.S. POSTAGERequired

James Connolly, right, and Mike Abrell, contractor flagman with National Railroad Safety Services oversee rail work.

Speed Swing, a railroad maintenance vehicle used to lay and remove rails with the use of a magnet, removing old rail.

L&I contractors installing the new rail. The railroad is laying approximately one mile of new rail every day.