Mr. Kesich provided direction into the on-going design and development of a comprehensive Shops/Yards Capital Plan to support current and future rolling stock maintenance/repair/dispatchment activities. At this carrier, several maintenance facilities were in need of significant modernization due to aging equipment, but also at the same time significant expansion were necessary to support new needs such as retention toilets and growth-driven traffic patterns changes that required EMU specific shop. We were an active lead in ensuring that a cohesive strategy to support the needs of the entire railroad was coordinated across six separate Shops/Yards modernization projects, including:
This was particularly challenging because each modernization project had separate work scopes and were funded by two sponsors in different jurisdictions.