Jay Benedict – The Dispatch Now

Watco Moves – Heavy Lifts in Houston

March 14, 2019

Greens Port Industrial Terminals (GPIT) sees plenty of vessels carrying a variety of bulk products and break-bulk products like steel pipes and coils. Most of the time, unloading them is fairly straight-forward...

WSOR tours flood recovery area with state, local officials

Jay Benedict

November 9, 2018

Extra!

On a mild fall day in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) hosted a group of state and local government officials to tour the flood-ravaged area that was affected by the string of severe stor...

Watco helps CBH Group transport record grain train in Western Austrailia

Jay Benedict

April 27, 2018

Moves

Just over a week ago, Watco Western Australia and our Customer and partner, CBH Group, broke the record for the longest and largest grain train ever operated on the continent. The 1.8 kilometer, or 1.1 mile,...

Team Members and teamwork keys to strong safety culture

Jay Benedict

April 19, 2018

Safety First

You may have recently seen that the Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR) hit an impressive safety milestone: 13 years without an injury. To celebrate this accomplishment, the Team grilled out at the Vicksburg So...

Watco goes to Washington

Jay Benedict

March 23, 2018

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You may have seen that about two weeks ago several Watco Team Members and one of our Customers joined nearly 700 other rail industry representatives and descended on Capitol Hill. What may have been unclear ...

Passing the torch: Watco Team Members perform as Out Loud

Jay Benedict

January 17, 2018

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Out Loud started as a way for a group of coworkers to blow off some steam and play music together. Now, roughly two and a half years later, the band is becoming regulars in the Southeast Kansas music scene. ...

Tip-off time thanks to Linden, NJ terminal

Jay Benedict

January 12, 2018

Strong

Linden, New Jersey, terminal manager Albert Perez has been involved with his community and church for years, so when his son Eli’s youth basketball league needed coaches and sponsors in order to b...

Watco winterizes Wisconsin

Jay Benedict

January 5, 2018

Moves

Most of the Eastern U.S. has been battered by artic cold, snowstorms, and flooding, and that’s deservedly gotten plenty of media coverage. However, in the northern Midwest, Wisconsin is also exper...

Locomotive life: Dwight Browning’s years in the cab

Jay Benedict

December 19, 2017

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Model trains running around the base of a family’s Christmas tree were common in American homes in the 1950’s and 60’s. That was the case in Dwight Browning’s home as well. However, it wasn’t as common for one ...

Kaye Lynne Webb receives the 2017 Influential Woman in Business Award

Jay Benedict

December 8, 2017

Milestones

The Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce presented Watco co-founder Kaye Lynne Webb with the first ever Influential Woman in Business Award this morning, December 8. Appropriately, the ceremony took place in a re...