WASHINGTON — America’s railroad is turning to an airline industry veteran to lead it through a summer of reckoning for congested tracks and crumbling infrastructure. Amtrak on Monday named former Delta Air Lines chairman Richard Anderson as its new president and CEO. The project, hastened by recent derailments and rush-hour snarls, will disrupt and delay millions of commuters at Amtrak’s busiest station. Amtrak says Anderson and current president and CEO Charles “Wick” Moorman will be co-CEOs through the end of 2017. Anderson was CEO of Northwest Airlines from 2001 to 2004 and CEO of Delta from 2007 to 2016.

Source: National Post June 26, 2017 20:48 UTC