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• SOUTH SHORE RAILROAD NAMES FOX PRESIDENT
  Lampe to retire after 40-year rail career
  
  The Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad said today that Henry Lampe, president and CEO, will retire at the end of October 2010. Succeeding him will be Andrew Fox, managing director of Pacific Harbor Line and former PHL president since 1997.
  
  Mr. Lampe has been CSS president since 2005, when he joined the railroad after 35 years with the Santa Fe and BNSF railways. He will continue as a member of the management committee.
  
  Mr. Fox will become CSS president, effective September 1, and he and Mr. Lampe will have a two-month transition before becoming CEO, effective October 31. Mr. Fox will also continue as managing director of Pacific Harbor Line.
  
  He joined PHL following a 23-year career with Southern Pacific, where he held various posts in the Operating, Finance and Executive departments. Mr. Fox has a B.S. degree in civil engineering and an MBA, both from Northwestern University.
  
  Headquartered in Michigan City, Ind., the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (www.southshorefreight.com) operates 127 route miles of line providing rail freight service between Chicago and South Bend. It is an affiliate of Anacostia & Pacific Company (www.anacostia.com).
  
  Anacostia Chairman Peter Gilbertson said, “Henry has led significant improvements at CSS in the areas of safety, operating efficiency, improving our commercial and political relationships, and in positioning the railroad strategically. We wish him all the best in his retirement and look forward to his continuing counsel.”
  
  Gilbertson added, “Andrew has done a superb job building PHL, which serves the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, into the premier U.S. port-railroad franchise. We look forward to his building on Henry’s success at CSS.”
  
  Anacostia & Pacific Company is a rail development and consulting firm based in Chicago.
  
  The South Shore began operations as an independent freight carrier in January 1990 connecting North America’s rail network with northern Indiana’s industrial complex.
  
  
• South Shore Freight President Henry Lampe Appointed To STB Advisory Committee
  
  Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad President, Henry Lampe, has been appointed to the Surface Transportation Board's Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Committee (RSTAC).  He joins 14 other appointees from various companies and industries located throughout the country, including Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern and CSX railroads, Chrysler, Exxon Mobil and the Packaging Corporation of America.

  RSTAC MISSION STATEMENT
  To work together as a council of rail advocates on a common goal to strengthen the national rail industry, improve service levels and foster mutually beneficial relationships between large and small railroads and shippers, across all commodity constraints and the evolution of merchandise carload network including the elements that impact them and bring forth recommendations for improvement.

• South Shore Freight Featured in Exhibit at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana
  Interurban Trains & Tourism: “Reclaiming the Past for the Future", Burnham Centennial
  Hyndman Gallery
  May 23, 2009 - July 26, 2009
  Reception: May 30, 2009 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Chicago time)
  
  As excerpted from the Lubeznik Center:
  The LCA is honored to participate and celebrate in The Burnham Centennial with the city of Chicago and all its program partners. The exhibit will feature some of the original lithographs commissioned in the late 1920's to promote tourism and economic development between Chicago and South Bend. These posters, developed as South Shore Posters, are beautiful examples of vintage artwork portraying the early 20th century boom of Northwest Indiana. Also included in the exhibition are original paintings from South Shore Freight, NIPSCO, NIRPC as well as related works and artifacts from dozens of private collections. Additional highlights will be photos from the Prairie Club dunes/beach corridor from the early 1900's, as well as a large collection of digital photo reproductions ranging from first date of construction to present of the SSL from Chicago to Michigan City . The exhibit will also include works from the Lubeznik Center 's own private collection.
  
  
  
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• Celebrating a Century of Training on the South Shore Line
  The Beacher
  July 24, 2008



• Celebrating the South Shore's Centennial with Norm Carlson
  The Beacher
  May 8, 2008



• A Two-Part Conversation with South Shore Freight’s Henry B. Lampe
  The Beacher
  January 24, 2008
  


• Travels with Charley: Hauling Some Hefty Weight with South Shore Freight
  The Beacher
  November 29, 2007
  
  
• Industrial Park Planned
  The News Dispatch
  July 29, 2007

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