Changing of the guard at Railway Track & Structures

Tom Judge, who has been Editor of Railway Track & Structures magazine since joining Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation in July 1998, will be retiring effective Dec. 31, 2010. Managing Editor Mischa Wanek-Libman, who has been with the publication nine years, will become Editor of RT&S.

"Over the past 12 years, RT&S has benefited tremendously from Tom Judge’s skill
and experience," said Simmons-Boardman Rail Group Publisher Robert P. DeMarco. "We
thank him for his dedication to the magazine and to the railroad industry, and
wish him a happy and healthy retirement. We’re also very pleased that Mischa Wanek-Libman
will be assuming the duties of chief editor. RT&S will remain in very capable and experienced hands."

Tom Judge began his
railroading career in 1971 at the Chicago & North Western Railway,
following service in the U.S, Marine Corps and a tour of duty in Vietnam. Prior
to joining the Marines, he earned a B.A. in English from the University of
Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He has been a Chicago resident since the age of six
months. "The railroad industry has been good to me," he said. "It was my father’s
Illinois Central and Chicago, West Pullman & Southern paychecks that put
food on the table and clothes on my back when I was growing up. After the
Marines, I had the good fortune to find an opportunity at C&NW. In later
years, I became a railroad journalist, first at another publication, then at RT&S
and Simmons-Boardman. It’s been a fulfilling 12 years, and over the course of
my career I’ve gotten to know many fine people in this industry."

Mischa Wanek-Libman,
a native of Grand Island, Neb., joined RT&S in August 2001 after graduating
from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, with a B.A. in Journalism & Mass
Communications. "It’s an honor to take on the responsibility of chief editor of
RT&S," she said. "I look forward to building upon the relationships I’ve
enjoyed for the past nine years, working with our industry’s railroads,
suppliers, and trade associations."

Railway Track &
Structures is a monthly technical
magazine designed to meet the information needs of the roadway and other civil
engineering-related departments of North American rail freight and passenger
operators. RT&S, published since 1905, covers the $10-billion business of
building and maintaining railway infrastructure, including roadway and track,
bridges and other structures and wayside communications and signaling systems.
The magazine is part of the Simmons-Boardman Rail Group, which consists of
monthly publications Railway Age,
RT&S and International
Railway Journal; the daily Rail
Group News e-newsletter; and the
Railway Educational Bureau.