Tri-City Railroad Company names VP, COO

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor

Tri-City Railroad Company hired John Miller as vice president and chief operating officer.

 

Miller started his career with the Milwaukee Road Railroad in June 1974 in the internal auditing department and transferred into the Accounting Department in 1978. He became manager – budget and responsibility accounting in March 1979 and in addition assumed the disbursement accounting function in 1983.

The Milwaukee Road was acquired by the Soo Line Railroad in 1985 and Miller was the primary accounting person responsible for coordinating the transfer of accounting functions from one railroad to the other. At Soo Line, he was responsible for disbursements and billing and later property accounting.

In 1986, John took a position as director – finance and accounting for Lake States Division where he was responsible for the accounting function for a separate 1800 mile $85 million profit center.

Lake States was put out to bid and was eventually acquired as Wisconsin Central Railroad. Miller took a position with WC in 1987 as its director –general and property accounting.

Miller moved to California in 1990 and worked for Southern Pacific Railroad until it was acquired by Union Pacific in 1996. He held several positions at SP and at the time of the merger, was the director of budgets for distribution services. While at UP, Miller moved into the Short Line Marketing Group in 1999 as manager – shortline development and has held that position until accepting his current position with TCRY.

Tri-City Railroad is a locally-owned shortline railroad operating on the former Hanford Department of Energy rail line, owned by the Port of Benton.

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