An increasingly "invisible" industry may find it hard to recruit new talent.
A railroad management crisis is brewing, one that is beginning to show signs of boiling over. "The railroad industry has been downsizing for about 20 years, since deregulation," says Kansas City Southern Railway President and CEO Mike Haverty. "Certainly, we needed to downsize, take the fat out, change some of the work rules. But in the process of downsizing, offering lucrative buyouts and early ...