Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; October 10, 2017
COVER STORY, RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2017: After “a very ragged 90 days,” CSX seems to be settling down as its CEO gives his Precision Scheduled Railroading one more go.
CSX President and CEO Ewing Hunter Harrison’s Precision Scheduled Railroading can be compared to legendary bandleader-pianist-composer-arranger Stan Kenton’s Progressive Jazz: If you’re not anticipating it, you might get run over. The Kenton Orchestra’s “wall of sound”—frequently loud, dissonant, polytonal, bombastic—evoked extreme reactions, back in the late 1940s and early 1950s. You either loved it or hated it. There was no middle ground. Kenton, a brilliant, complex jazz innovator, passionately believed in what he was doing—critics be damned. And most of the musicians and arrangers who worked with him over the years were fiercely loyal.
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