45th Annual MARTS Technical Conference Chicago

MONDAY, September 22, 2008 – Meetings Held in Williford Room “C”

1:30 PM AAR Advanced Technology Safety Initiative

Presenter: Lisa Stabler, AVP Quality & Reliability Engineering, BNSF Railroad & ATSI/EHMS SC Chairman

Presentation by Ms. Stabler

Presenter: Alan McDonald, Director Equipment Data Systems, Railinc Corporation

Presentation by Mr. McDonald

Presenter: R. B. Wiley, Principal Investigator Engineering Services, Transportation Technology Center, Inc.

Presentation by Mr. Wiley

2:30 PM Wheel Defect Consortium

Presentation by:

David Cackovic – Chief Technical Standards and Inspections TTCI

Scott Cummings – Senior Engineer TTCI

Presentation by Mr. Cummings

3:45 PM Freight Car Fatigue

Presentation by:

David Cackovic – Chief Technical Standards and Inspections TTCI

John Colburn – Trinity Rail

Presentation by Mr. Cackovic & Colburn

TUESDAY September 23, 2008

8:45 AM Remote Monitoring

Panel Members:

Panel Leader – Randy Thomure, Vice President Marketing, TrinityRail

Robert Fronczak – Assistant Vice President Environment & Hazardous Materials,AAR

John Felty – National Sales Manager, RF Trax

Ken Sherman – Vice President Marketing, Intellitrans

Don Loftis – Principle Software Engineer, Olin C/A Logistics and Advanced Automation

Remote Monitoring Presentation

10:00 AM Protective Coating Committee

Presentation

3:15 PM Castings

Presentation by:

Jon Hannafious – TTCI

Dan Moseng – Manager, Mechanical Engineering, BNSF, member of the AAR Coupling System and Truck Castings Committee

Presentation by Me. Moseng and Hannafious