by Tracie VanBecelaereManaging Editor

A new generation of the Webb family was on hand to celebrate the dedication of the new Coffeyville Tank Barn at Watco's first mechani-cal shop. Camden Deao and Callie Lundy, great grandchildren of Dick Webb, Watco founder, attended the event with their grandparents, Susie and Gary Lundy and great grandma, Kaye Lynne Webb. Callie's dad, Bubba Lundy, was also on hand to help dedicate the new Coffeyville Tank Barn to his grandfather.

The new barn replaces a building called the "heavy barn" that was built in the early 1900's. The building was torn down in October of last year to make room for the new barn. The new

tank barn features a four-car spot for repairing tank cars. In addition to the space in the building, there is track space available for 170 cars. The tank car capabilities will be an add-on to what the shop is already doing for cur-rent Customers.

The Coffeyville Team had a Town Hall meeting on March 14 which recognized their two year injury-free mile-stone that was reached on February 27. The Thompson Brothers Welding and Indus-trial

Watco's Terminal and Port Services keep add-ing new features to the terminal at Greens Port Industrial Park to make it one of the premier terminals on the Houston Ship Channel. They recently commissioned a new barge dock which is part of the 24-acre terminal complex located within Greens Port. With the commissioning, the Greens Port Crude by Rail operations can load and unload barges with crude oil and condensate at a rate of 6,500 barrels per hour. The liquids barge dock is connected by pipeline to Magellan which is adjacent to Greens Port. Additionally the dock connects to 250,000 barrels of storage capac-

ity recently constructed within the terminal which in turn is connected to a 70 railcar rack.

The team is quickly becoming well versed in the newest and most techno-logically advanced equipment in ter-minal operations and safety measures. To assure compliance with air quality requirements, the volatile organic com-pounds from loading operations are filtered through a vapor recovery unit (VRU), the VRU at Greens Port is the largest in North American and is the

most efficient available. The team is also

becoming well versed in all of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) compliance regulations. With loading opera-tions taking place on the water and Watco’s firm commitment to protect-ing the environment, there is a significant amount of training required to complete operations. A person in charge must be on site for each barge loading, the team member must be approved and registered with the USCG. The terminal can take two

30,000 barrel barges at a time; a typical loading will be 50,000 barrels and take approximately 12 hours.

The new barge dock is one of many new assets coming on-line at Greens Port. This amazing facility, coupled with the dedication of Watco Team Members, is poised for significant growth for many years to come.

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Greens Port completes addition of liquid barge dock

The new barge dock at Greens Port on the Houston Ship Channel.

As a safety feature, the Greens Port Terminal has acquired the largest vapor recovery unit in North America.

Coffeyville dedicates new tank car repair building

The Coffeyville Team will be able to repair up to four tank cars at a time in the new Coffeyville Tank Barn. (Continued on page 3)

The Wichita State University (WSU) men's basketball team has just accomplished something that no other team has done - ever. The Kansas team's 35-0 record going into the second round of the NCAA tournament is one that hasn't been accomplished before and probably won't be duplicated any time soon. Rolling across Kansas tooting its horn for the Wichita State Shockers is one of its biggest fans, Wooo Shock, the 262,000 pound locomotive which was given the name as a play on the name of the WSU mascot, WuShock.

On March 11, Watco's Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (KO) introduced the GP-40-2 diesel to the Wichita community and university officials. WSU President, Dr. John Bardo, wearing his K&O ball cap, thanked the railroad for honoring the university in such a unique way.

"Wow! That's a big Shocker," said Bardo as the locomotive rolled to a stop near the crowd that had gathered to greet the newest Shocker. “We appreciate the K&O Railroad doing this and hon-oring our university,” he said.

Although the basketball team's winning streak has brought more attention to the school as of late, the KO team members had been wanting to do something like this for some time.

"Everything just worked out as far as the timing went," said Jimmy Patterson, KO general man-ager. "Our color scheme is the same as the univer-sity so we basically just had to obtain permission to use of the WuShock and Go Shocks logos, hire a local firm to produce large decals of the logos and apply the decals to the recently painted black-and-yellow 3,000-horsepower locomotive."

As the locomotive made its first trip across the state it was greeted at many of the towns by Wichita State fans and railfans eager to see the

black and gold locomotive. Patterson said his engineer told

him there were more than 75 people lined up in Great Bend, Kansas, to get a sight of the Wooo Shock loco-motive pulling its first train across the central and western parts of the state.

Like the Shockers, this locomo-tive is unique. There are only two other NCAA schools honored with

a locomotive done in official school colors and logos in Watco's locomotive fleet. Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS) and The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) are the other two schools that have been recognized with locomo-tives in their honor.

"I don't know of any other schools that have

locomotives honoring them that are out running on the national rail system," said Larry Jensen, Watco's chief mechanical officer. "There are some at switching locations and plants but as far as being out on the rails, these are pretty rare."

Wichita State has another athletic team that has risen to the top and Watco has a special connec-tion to that team as well. In 1989 the Shocker's baseball team won the College World Series and Watco's Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Central, West and Northeast Regions, Pat Cedeno, played on that championship team.

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K&O Railroad has a "Shocking" locomotive

Top photo: Wichita State Uni-versity's President, Dr. John Bardo, and WuShock greet the crowd gathered to see the newest Shocker in Wichita, Kansas.Bottom photo: WuShock poses with the locomotive featuring the WuShock image.

Australian girls soccer team visits VegasWhat happens in Vegas doesn't

always stay in Vegas. Watco Western Australia Rail recently helped spon-sor a trip to Vegas for the Australian Walkabout Football Club. The club was created to provide unique inter-national and cultural opportunities to talented young soccer players.

The teams went undefeated in pool play but lost in the quarter

finals. However, the trip was a huge success because eight of the girls have been contacted regarding scholarship opportunities with U.S. universities.

Team members from the Walkabout Football Club who traveled from Australia to Las Vegas to showcase their skills.

Hockley shoot-outHockey (Texas) Mechanical Shop Team Member Carlos

Cruz thought it would be a fun team building experience to get together with some guys from work and shoot it out. On March 22 two team gathered for a paintball shoot-out.

After two hours of strategically planned obstacle-dodging fun they all, thankfully, walked away with just some bruises and sore

muscles.Although

this wasn't an "official" team build-ing experi-ence it was a great way for some of the team to get together and enjoy some time together outside of work.

Participating in the Hockley Mechanical Team Shootout was: Team Camo (back row) Jovani Agui-lar, Alvaro Diaz, Julio Padilla and (kneeling) Carlos Cruz. Team Not Camo: Cristian Alvarado, Juan Val-entine Aguilar, Ruben Rodriguez, Teodoro Arellano and his son Julian Arellano.

Supplies team brought in their grill and cooked steaks for the group.

"I called and asked about borrowing their big grill and they said they wanted to come cook for us," said Dion Wilkens, plant man-ager. "They were with us from the start here at Coffeyville as a vendor and it really shows the kind of long lasting relationships that Dick Webb built."

Following the meeting they dedicated the new shop. A plaque was made to hang in the shop with the following words, " On Febru-ary 1, 1985 Dick Webb fulfilled a dream of owning his own railcar shop. After 27 years in the railroad industry, Dick purchased the Leavenworth Steel/Darby railcar shop in Coffeyville, Kansas and secured a contract to repair railcars from our first car repair Customer, Middle South Utilities, (Entergy), whose coal trains were traveling from the Powder Basin in Wyoming to southern power plants. Since that time Dick’s com-pany, Watco Companies, has acquired a number of mechanical shops across the country offering a variety of services to rail-car repair Customers. This first shop is where Dick spent many hours teaching and guiding his team members in the practice of taking care of the Customer. This focus, now called the Customer First Foundation Principles, is

what drives the success of Watco. This build-ing is dedicated to Dick Webb, whose vision, risk taking and hard work made Watco’s success possible."

Wilkens said, "I'm really proud of our team here in Coffeyville. Last year was a very busy year but they stayed focused on safety despite the tearing down and building going on around them. They also had to receive additional training to become tank certified so they worked hard to keep safety in the forefront."

Upcoming Watco U Courses: TS&IC April 8-10, Minot, ND

RAIL Course of the Month: "Motivating Team Members and Leading Change"

Watco University Completions101- Andrea Harville, Trainmaster, Birmingham, AL; Calvin Turner, Foreman, Mulga, AL; Danny Anderes, Corporate Quality Director, Neodesha, KS; Jared Carman, Safety QA Manager, WI Region, Janesville, WI; Jeffrey Van Schaick; Assistant VP of Government Affairs, Edmond, OK; Josh Gwillim, Trainmaster, Madison, WI; Kevin Krueger, Yardmas-ter, Horicon, WI; Michael Hoglan, Track Supervi-sor, Birmingham, AL; Michael McKenzie, Chief Mechanical Officer, Austin, TX; Victor McClure, Purchasing Manager Railcar, Pittsburg, KS; 201- Billy Eddington, Manager, Zwolle, LA; Donta Davis, Car Repair Foreman, Oklahoma City, OK; Pete Wilczewski, Purchasing, Zwolle, LA; Robbie Meshell, Plant Superintendant, Zwolle, LA; Tricia Underwood, Director-Corporate Railcar DDCT/DP&FC, Pittsburg, KS.

Turn Self-Improvement Desires Into Reality

How many times have we told ourselves, I’m going to be more organized? Or that the diet

starts tomorrow? Only to have that enthusiasm fizzle away, and our best intentions come to nothing. One of the most common things in the world is the desire for self-improvement followed by inaction. There are four basic ways to beat the inertia:

1. Get moving. Start slowly but at least you're doing something and momentum is build-ing. It's harder to stop when your moving than when you're standing still.

2. Be accountable. Positive pressure includes encouragement from family or friends. Join a class or group that holds you accountable to complete your goals.

3. Ignore failures. We all give in to tempta-tion. Plan for it, accept it and move on.

4. Motivate yourself. More than anything you have to want it. Don't set goals that you really have no desire to achieve. Set goals that are realistic and envision yourself accomplishing them.

No matter what your goals are for self-improvement - the key word is self and you are the only self that is going to make your goals a reality.

There are some courses available through Watco's Team Member Self-Service link on the web site if you are interested in improving your work and business skills. It's a great way to get started and get the momentum for change going.

Like the little engine, think you can!

the crossingwhere learning meets leadership

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The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL)has been doing some major spring cleaning! What they decided to get rid of was something larger than what is normally put on the curb during city wide cleanups - it was a building. The SKOL recently purchased a new building to replace the old one that had been in place for the last 20 years. The old building was in desperate need of repair or replacement and after repair estimates were received it was determined a new building would be the most cost effective solution. The new building was set up and ready for business on March 19th and doubles the footage of the previous depot.

The old depot had only two offices which was shared by operations, MOW, the mechanical departments, and the 13 team members who work at the Winfield location. The new building features four offices, one each for opera-tions, mechanical, and MOW. The fourth office will be used as a locker room for team members to use.

Joe Magruder, locomotive engineer, said, "It was nice that the company recognized we had a need and deliv-ered."

He added, "We went from having no room to having almost more room than we need!”

There are five jobs that come on to Winfield each day, two switchers and three locals. The location is also an interchange point for the BNSF, Union Pacific and the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad. More than 9,000 cars go through Winfield annually carrying a variety of com-modities such as aggregates, grains, steel products, and chemicals.

SKOL replaces Winfield depot

Team members in front of the new Windfield Depot are (l-r): Chad Shaffer, Travis Thorpe, Jon Johnson, Joe Magruder, Troy Malone, Lori Vaden, and Matt Drake.

Coffeyville dedicates building

Callie Lundy and Camden Deao (front) show off the plaque dedicating the new tank facility to their great grandfather, Dick Webb. With the kids are Gary Lundy, Kaye Lynne Webb and Susie Lundy.

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birth, etc.) e-mail them to: tvan@watcocompanies.com or mail to:

Tracie VanBecelaere - Watco Companies315 W. 3rd Street, Pittsburg, KS 66762

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In just a couple of months members of the Watco Team and/or their family members will be

crossing stages across the continent (and ocean) to receive their diplomas from various academic institutions.

Watco would like to acknowledge the hard work of all graduates from our families by listing them in May’s edition of The Dispatch. If you would like to have your information or a graduate’s information listed, send in the information in the following format:Graduates name: relationship to Watco Team member, Watco Team member’s title and location. The school the graduate is attending and location of that school. If the graduate is receiving a degree from a college, university or trade school list the graduates degree type.

Examples would be: College: Allen Kellar Jr.: Son of Allen Keller, mechanical inspector in Omaha, Neb.; graduating from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, with a Bachelor of Sci-ence in Electrical Engineering.High School: Taylor Marie Bolinger: Daughter of Mark Bolinger, Human Re-source Manager for WTS-Central Region, Pittsburg, Kan.; graduating from St. Mary’s-Colgan High School, Pittsburg, Kan.

Send your graduation information to: Tracie VanBecelaere - Watco Companies

315 W. 3rd Street, Pittsburg, KS 66762or email them to: tvan@watcocompanies.com .

Please put Dispatch-May Graduation in the subject line.

Graduation Announcements

The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) Locomotive Team celebrated their one year injury-free anniversary on February 28. This anniversary also marked the amount of time that the team has been at the new locomotive shop just north of Cherryvale, Kan. The team has really enjoyed the new building and espe-cially appreciated the advantage of being able to make repairs indoors instead of outside during the harsh winter conditions this year.

The shop was built thanks to a TIGER II grant and is capable of holding four SD40-2 locomotives on two tracks at one time. The facility features a 25 ton multi-direction overhead crane spanning the interior of the building, a single axle drop pit table capable of removing one traction motor/wheel combo assembly from under-neath the locomotive at one time, and a full length inspection pit providing clear ac-cess to the undercarriage of two locomotives while performing periodic inspections that are required by the FRA. The second track provides an area to perform heavier repairs and component replacement like traction motor/wheel combo assemblies, power assemblies, generators, etc.

Matt Despos, SKOL general manager, said, “The entire SKOL Team is proud of the Locomotive Team for completing a year injury-free. The job that the locomo-tive shop performs each day is vitally important to the overall success of the SKOL and we commend the Locomotive Team for doing it day in and day out injury and accident free.”

SKOL Locomotive Team celebrates safety milestone

SKOL Locomotive Team members who recently celebrated the one year injury-free milestone are (l-r): Arden Martinie, Jacob Nance, Dave Dan-iels, Josh Holt, Mike Stotts, Shannon Knisley.

WellingtonTermial

A big welcome to our newest team members at the Wellington (Utah) Ter-minal. Wellington is Watco's first opera-tion in the state of Utah and they will be performing transload duties at the site. Wellington is about two hours south and a little west of Salt Lake City.

Team members at the location are: Mark Rice, terminal manager; Merle Wi-ese, supervisor; Randy Burgess, operator; Robert Llewelyn, operator; Stewart Jones, operator; Darren Cloward, operator; Mi-chele Dimick, customer service represen-tative; Bart Davis, operator, and Jonathan Pendray, operator.

Watco Discounts

The Wellington (Utah) Terminal.

Are you getting ready to change your cell phone service? If so, take a look and see if you can get a better deal using the Watco Team discount. Many of the larger carriers offer discounts of 10% off or more and it pays to do some research first to get the best deal. Other offers are also available, some for work related discounts and some carry over for personal use as well.

You can look up the discounts that are available on the Watco Team Portal. On the left hand side of the main page there is a link called Watco Discounts. Click on that link and it will take you to a page that lists the various discounts avail-able. Hotel discounts will list if they are for personal use as well as work related travel but it never hurts to check. If you are unable to access the portal you can e-mail tvan@watco-companies.com for assistance.

If there is a local service that your team members use or frequent often it's always a good idea to see if discounts are available to your team, a penny saved is a penny earned.

Congratulations to the following team members celebrating their anniversaries!

1 Year: Oscar Aleman, Michael Banasik, Dylan Barbee, Adam Barrera, Keith Bowman, John Castleberry, Michael Crosslin, Justin Denton, Michael Ebarb, Billy Fann, Tyrone Fries, Reynaldo Gallegos, Antonio Gill, Andrew Gonstead, Ethan Goss, Alejandro Guajardo, Dustin Hammerschmidt, Tyler Hardy, Nathan Henderson, John Honaker, John Householder, Jeremy Huskey, George King, Ricardo Knowel, Joseph Lewis, James Lynn, Quinchez Marshall, Jared May, Lisa Miller, Jacob Nance, Tyler Nay, Paul Parker, Mark Perry, Kyle Ratliff, Bill Rollins, Jennifer Roth, David Rudfelt, Mike Salts, Jennifer Severe, John Shealey, Todd Shomo, Andrew Smith, Jerick Staker, Dustin Steger, Donna Stinson, Stacy Sufak, Meaghan Tucker, Jason Turcyn, Terri Turiano, Chase Upchurch, Caleb Ussery, Shane Varno, Scott Vincent, Nicholas Wayman, Donavan Wheeler2 Years: Jose Acosta, Cristian Alvarado, Tyronne Armstrong, Scott Ayers, Barry Beasley, Willie Carson, Miguel Casarez, Manuel Castillo, Brian Dokken, David Garcie, Joseph Giordano, Nicholas Graham, Aaron Greene, Christopher Hammond, Justin Hayes, Stefan Holcomb, Michael Hooper, Joseph Hubbard, Stephanie James, Timothy Jenkins, William King, Michael Kruse, James Lathum, Joseph Mays, Shamaron McPherson, Gregory Mosby, Michael Mulnix, Troy Nicholas, Dustin Perkins, Jason Randolph, Marvin Smith, Patrick Stout, Andrew Thompson, Oscar Trevino, Gary Truex, Lorna Walcott, Mark Wells, John Westbrook, Tyrus White, Jeremy Williams, Keith Williams, Trever Winchell, Tracy Wright, Carlton Young3 Years: Mark Adams, Joshua Allphin, David Bader, Artrina Barber, Jose Bautista, Karlis Binns, Kraig Blackwelder, Joshua Briggs, Henery Dannehl, Douglas Delehoy, Dillon Dutcher, Kieran Foster, Herico Garcia, Megan Gwin, Allen Hasty, Axel Herrera, Brian Hickerson, Richard Hudson, Craig Kalk, Kris Kinsall, Tyler Neesam, Timothy Page, Matthew Parker, Michael Patterson, Zachery Pittman, Steven Ponio, Dustin Rhodes, Marty Robbins, Donald Robert, Hugo Silva, Tyler Springman, Christa Steege, David Stimer, Scott Teel, Gerald Tjepkema4 Years: Horacio Antonio, Hayley Becker,

Randall Bennett, William Casey, Shon Christensen, Robert Cockman, Waylon Doyle, Bennie Ellison, Allen Godfrey, John Hargis, Anthony Hoyte, Houston Knight, Jordan Merritt, Rachael Peterson, Jesus Ramirez, David Riley, Kevin Roth, Owen Schulz, Luis Soto, Nicole Stevenson, James Sullins, Roidino Trevino, Thomas Twichell5 Years: Angela Bunker, Joseph Grupczynski, Mark Moorlag, Michael Murphy, Bill Richmond, Troy Sickle6 Years: Drew Drewenski, Steven Everett, Tye Gray, Chris Haddow, Russell Hamm, Robert Hurda, Richard Knilans, Jason Lloyd, Joseph Magnone, Jose Martinez, Curtis Rice, Arnoldo Sandoval7 Years: Joel Aguilar, Tony Clark, Nickol Corr, Rebekah Garner, Arthur Gurney, Joseph Holcomb, Matt McKenzie8 Years: Jeffrey Allred, Shellee Currier, Timothy Dunn, Cody Gilliland, Gerardo Horta, Christopher Preuc, Grant Rasmussen, David Tinnon9 Years: Jerad Brunskill, Brandon Eddleman, Travis Fellers, Pat Foster, Brian Fox, Justin Rhodes, Travis Tholen, Tracie Van Becelaere, Patrick White, David Wilczewski, David Witzack10 Years: Jeffery Greenwood, Valerie Kahley, Dennis

Meyer, Loren Parr 11 Years: Shane Engle,

Judith Johnson, Keith Kitson12 Years: Brent Booth, Lisa Butts, Pat Cedeno, Jason Ebarb, Albert

Finn, John Galloway, Darren McComic,

Mark Richter, Kenneth Sauter, Terry Towner,

Gary Vogels13 Years: Shane Collins

14 Years: Robert Heiligenthal, Jeanne Housel, Sue Immel,

William Kyzer, Byron Marshall15 Years: Darby Destromp, James

Walton16 Years: Stacey Hurda

17 Years: Tony Ange, Brandy Etheridge, Jeremy Findley, David Jena, Roger Kitzmiller18 Years: Kenneth Barber19 Years: Aaron Byle21 Years: Neal Jacobs22 Years: Michael Hill

23 Years: Gary Cooley, Gary Sanderson25 Years: Dwight Browning29 Years: Thomas Dawson30 Years: Harel Harrison, Larry Thomas31 Years: Anthony Decapio32 Years: Larry Vail, Dion Wilkens33 Years: James Bass35 Years: Larry Bohland, Carl Leone36 Years: Robert Neal37 Years: Donald Drobnoek

39 Years: Richard Duncan

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Honors/AwardsAlec Parr, son of Loren Parr, chief mechan-ical officer for the Great Northwest Rail-road, was selected as a member of the Team Washington/Alaska ice hockey team. He will be participating in America's Showcase Tournament which runs April 8-13 in Pitts-burg, Pa. Alec, a high school junior, spent the winter season playing for the AA Tri Cities Junior Americans. The tryouts were open to any qualifying players from Washington and Alaska and Alec was able to secure one of the six defense positions open.

Ailee Story, daughter of Doug Story, vice president of agricultural marketing, was named to the Topeka Capital Journal Class 2A Girl's Basketball Honorable Mention Team, Honorable Mention Varsity Kansas 2A All Class Team, and CNC All-League 2nd Team.

Taylon Lamkin, son of Herb Lamkin, roadmaster for the K&O Railroad, me-daled with a 6th place finish in the Kansas 4A State Wrestling Tournament for the 195 lb. weight class. Taylon is a senior at Wel-lington High School in Wellington, Kansas. The state tournament was held at the Salina Bicentennial Center in Salina, Kansas.Taylon finished his senior year with a 34-8 record.

Jean Hybinette, wife of Carl Hybinette, director of engineering, Compliance Services, was the recipient of the 2014 Dis-tinguished Service Award from the Arch-diocese of Chicago in recognition of her service as a high school teacher at Chicago's St. Benedict Preparatory School. Jean has taught computer technology at the school for 35 years.

Watco Team Members headed for the hill, Capi-tol Hill, in Washington, D.C., to tout the benefits the industry has to offer the nation. Railroad Day on Capitol Hill is an operation which is vital to the short line railroads in our country. More than 600 railroaders and industry colleagues such as shippers, suppliers, and rail advocacy principals, participated in the event. The rail supporters visited a total of 352 congressional offices, meeting directly with senators, representatives or their key staffers.

The three main topics that were discussed in the meetings were extending the 45G Tax Credit, oppo-sition to re-regulation, and opposition to increasing truck size and weights. To sum it up briefly, rail-roads presented that short lines continue investing in the infrastructure thanks to the 45G tax credit but it expired and needs to be extended. Regulation didn't work before the Stagger's Act and there are already

checks in place to ensure pricing is fair so railroads definitely want to halt any effort at reregulating railroads. Increasing truck size and weights would affect safety and increase the burden of taxpayers to maintain roads from the wear and tear of the larger trucks on the roads.

Watco participants included; Amy Parady, vice president of sales and marketing, Gulf/Southeast Region; Shasta Duffey, marketing manager; Tracie VanBecelaere, director of communications; Ryan Wil-liams, marketing manger; Shellee Currier, marketing manager; Stefan Loeb, vice president business devel-opment, Jeff VanSchaick, vice president, government affairs;, James Rader, senior vice president compliance services, Gary Vaughn, senior vice president transpor-tation rules and regulatory compliance; Ken Lucht, director of government relations; and Ed McKechnie, executive vice president and chief commercial officer.

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Watco Team Members headed for the Hill

Watco's Stefan Loeb (left), vice president business development, and other rail industry representative spent Railroad Day on Capitol Hill talking to Senators, Congressman, and their staff about railroad issues.

Revenue Accounting Team Member heads to greener fieldsThey say the grass is always greener on the other side

and for Mike Cain, assistant vice president of revenue accounting, we hope that's true because the greener side he's going to is a golf course. After 40 years in the railroad industry Mike is retiring, but not one to just sit around, he already has another job waiting in the wings.

Mike will be taking on the position of Golf Course Marshall at a Kansas City area country club. This is a dream job for anyone who loves golf. As the Course Marshall he will be responsible for riding around the course on his golf cart and ensuring that all the custom-ers are happy, basically following the Customer First Principles, only in different surroundings. Perks of the job include free golf and lessons, which he is hoping will improve his own scores on the course.

Mike started his career as a switcher for the Mil-waukee Railroad and after six months he decided that wasn't something he enjoyed so he got a job in revenue

accounting with the Kansas City Southern Railway where he worked for 34 years. In 2008 Mike joined the Watco Team and commuted from Kansas City to Pittsburg for four and a half years. When the offices opened in Stilwell, Kansas, just on the edge of Kansas City, he began working from that location.

In addition to golfing, Mike will be able to enjoy spending time with his wife Pam, two daughters, and four grandchildren who all live in the Kansas City area.

"I enjoyed working for Watco," said Mike. "I keep telling the young kids around here that there are so many opportunities with the potential to move up. The company continues to grow and the advantage of working for a short line company is that you gain more skills because you're wearing several hats."

Kellie Sisler, vice president revenue accounting and pricing administration, said, "Mike will truly be missed. He brought experience and training to our team members that bridged the knowledge gap during some of the most extraordinary growth periods experienced by Watco."

Mike Cain, retiring vice presi-dent of revenue accounting.