Leaders Count: The Story of the BNSF Railway
LAWRENCE H (LARRY) KAUFMAN has spent more than 35 years promoting, working for, and commenting on U.S. railroads.  As a journalist, he was transportation correspondent forBusiness Weekmagazine and broke the news of the Penn Central bankruptcy in June 1970.  At the Association of American Railroads, he led public affairs when the industry was deregulated. After deregulation, he was vice president for public affairs of the Burlington Northern Railroad. He then covered transportation issues forThe Journal of Commercebefore joining the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. He now writes regularly on transportation issues forThe Journal of Commercemagazine andRail Businessnewsletter.  He also is the coauthor, with David J. DeBoer, ofAn American Transportation Story: the Obstacles, the Challenge,thePromise.