BLU Team Member gives gift of life
What began in 2016 as an effort to help the family of a fellow team member has turned into an international life-saving mission for Blue Ridge Southern (BLU) Roadmaster Brock Parham.
In February of 2016, B...
Tip-off time thanks to Linden, NJ terminal
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...
Loving Team donates school supplies
This year’s Loving Angels annual school supply drive was bigger and better than ever.
The Loving Angels is a community service club at Watco’s Loving Terminal in Loving, New Mexico. This is the third year th...
Safety tips traded between students and Team members
Nathan George loves trains. He says he might even want to drive one when he grows up.
So, when his third-grade class at Lakeside Elementary in Pittsburg, Kansas, was given a social studies assignment to writ...
Historic engine sports new Watco logo for Pittsburg homecoming
Watco rolled out the black and yellow to support the crimson and gold in Pittsburg State’s homecoming parade on Saturday, October 14. One difference this year is that it was decorated with the new Watco logo, w...
Team member is an everyday hero
When Cahokia Leadman Aaron Garcia isn’t busy as a liquids terminals operator on the Mississippi River, he takes on the daunting role of saving lives.
While driving back to Illinois from a Florida vacation, G...
Team member’s family fosters dignity, love
When Paula Tarwater’s younger son, Joshua, turned 16, she felt a void.
“He and our older son, Matthew, were pretty much done with me mothering them, and it was hard,” she said. “I wasn’t through mothering ye...
BLU shares safety training with Customer, firemen
From Customers to volunteer firemen, our Team on the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad (BLU) is helping to ensure the safety of others.
When the Balsam-Willets-Ochre Hill Volunteer Fire Department had questions a...
All Aboard Foundation awards scholarships
It's always a difficult decision, says All Aboard Foundation Fundraising and Event Coordinator Cassie Bicknell, but scholarship recipients have been chosen for this year.
"We had 20 applicants this year and ...
Watco Team includes a mayor
Watco's Assistant General Counsel Michael Gray wears a lot of hats depending on where he's headed.
Royals baseball caps when he drives to games in Kansas City. Pittsburg State University Gorillas hats when h...