Awards and Accolades
Our Award-Winning Company
- 2025 America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity Newsweek
- 2025 Clean Fuels Awards - Industry Partnership Award American Ag Network
- 2024 Digital Transformation of the Year Digital Engineering Awards
- 2024 Railroad Carrier of the Year C.H. Robinson
- 2024 Outstanding Railroad Historic Preservation Award – Big Boy No. 4014 National Railway Historical Society, Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures
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2024 Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces
Ranked: No. 23 - Overall; No. 4 - Enterprise Business (5000+ employees).
Inspiring Workplaces Group -
2024 Top 50 Companies for Workplace Fairness
Ranked: No. 43
Fair360 -
2023 Toyota Logistics Excellence Awards
Recognized for: Customer Service, Kaizen Excellence Award, President’s Award
Toyota Logistics Services -
2024 Inclusion & Diversity Impact – Inclusion Award
Ranked: Highly Commended
World 50 Group - 2024 Early Talent Award Handshake
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2024 Training APEX Award
Ranked: No.18
Training Magazine -
2024 Top 100 Best Internships
Ranked: No. 98 - Overall; No. 7 - Best Software Engineering & Development Internships; No. 19 - Best Tech & Engineering Industry Internships; No. 23 - Best Finance Internships.
Vault -
2023 LearningElite Award
Ranked: No.14
Chief Learning Officer Media -
2023 SAP Innovation Award
Adoption Champion
SAP - 2023 Net Zero Leaders List Forbes Magazine
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2023 BEST Award
Ranked: No. 7
Association for Talent Development -
2023 Training APEX Award
Ranked: No. 30
Training Magazine - 2022 Railroad Carrier of the Year MODE Global
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2023 Early Talent Award
Specialty Lists - Ranked: No. 5 - All Referred Applications; No. 6 - Referred Underrepresented Group Applicants; No. 8 - Referred Women Applicants.
Handshake - 2023 World’s Most Admired Companies Fortune Magazine
- 2023 Sustainability Yearbook Member and Industry Mover S&P Global
- Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index
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2023 Top 50 America’s Most Just Companies
Ranked: No. 49 - Overall; No. 1 - Transportation.
JUSTcapital -
2022 Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces - North America
Ranked: No. 15
Inspiring Workplaces Group - 2022 World's Most Admired Companies Fortune Magazine
- 2022 Training APEX Awards Training Magazine
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2022 Best Finance Internships
Ranked: No. 25
Vault - 2021 BEST Awards Association of Talent Development
Our Award-Winning Workforce
- Jason Fox, 2024 John H. Chafee Environmental Excellence Award Association of American Railroads
- Reed Janousek, 2025 Fast Tracker Railway Age
- Ira Cooper, 2024 Black Leadership Award Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Ashley Stinebaugh, 2024 Young Rail Leader International Railway Journal
- Todd Rynaski, 2024 Veteran Leadership Award Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Wendy Whalen, 2024 Women in Rail Honoree Railway Age
- 2024 Top 50 Women Leaders of Nebraska: Lori Lentsch and Jamie Peters Women We Admire
- Jason Elliott, Patriot Award, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Department of Defense
- 2024 Rising Stars: James Carey, Akanksha Bode and Emily Schmitt Progressive Railroading
- Jim Vena, 2024 Readers' Influential Leaders Railway Age
- Jennifer Hamann, 2023 Women in Rail Railway Age
- Beth Whited, 2023 LEADERS40 Top Chief Human Resources Officer N2Growth Magazine
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2023 Native American Indigenous Leadership Award: Desrié Valdez and Marsha Woodard
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2023 Women Worth Watching in Leadership Awards: Jo Ellen Stock and Jacque Bendon
Profiles in Diversity Journal - 2023 Rising Stars: Jason Boche and Tim Thompson Jr. Progressive Railroading
- Sarah Mueller, 2023 Women in Railroad Engineering Railway Track & Structures
- 2023 Women Worth Watching in STEM: Lori Lentsch and Jordan Turner Profiles in Diversity Journal
- 2023 Asian Leadership Awards: Snigdha Ganta and David Welch Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Beth Whited, 2023 ESG 50 Top Executives Constellation Research
- 2023 Latino Leadership Award: Carl Garrison, Wes Lujan and Daniela Zarza. Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Jennifer Hamann, 2023 Women MAKE Award The Manufacturing Institute
- Patrick Larm, 2023 Fast Tracker Railway Age
- Tonya Conley, 2022 Diverse Lawyers Making a Difference Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Kenny Rocker, 2022 Black Leadership Award Profiles in Diversity Journal
- Tony Dowling, 2022 Young Leaders in Rail International Railway Journal
- Kevin Peterburs, 2022 Professional Environmental Excellence Award Nominee Association of American Railroads
- Joshy Madathil, 2022 40 Under 40 Class Midlands Business Journal
- Brett Hiscock, 2022 Patriot Award, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Department of Defense
- Polly Harris, 2022 Power 100 List Diversity Woman Media
- Katie Sanders, 2022 Women in Rail Honorees Railway Age
- Supriya Deshmukh, 2022 Technology All-Stars Women of Color STEM DTX Conference
- Omar Monge, 2022 10 Under 40 List Railway Track & Structures
- Wendy Whalen, 2022 Women in Supply Chain Award Winners Supply and Demand Chain Executive
- Ken Kuwamura, 2022 CommunityCares Award Winner – Outstanding Community Leader CommunityWorks
- Grace Olsen, 2022 Women Worth Watching List Diversity Journal
- Cassie Gouger, 2022 Women in Engineering List Railway Track & Structures
- Debbie Schrampfer, 2022 Women in Rail Awards International Railway Journal
- 2022 Rising Stars: Clifton Ellis, Sarah Yrkoski and Lee Sorrick Progressive Railroading
- Rahul Jalali, 2022 Forbes CIO Next List Forbes
- Rahul Jalali, 2022 Readers’ Influential Leaders Railway Age
- Beth Whited, 2021 Railway Woman of the Year League of Railway Women and Progressive Railroading magazine
- Beth Whited, 2021 Women in Rail Railway Age
- Beth Whited, 2021 Top CHRO Award Stanford Graduate School of Business and N2Growth
- Debra Schrampfer, 2021 Women's Legacy Award Women on a Mission for Change
- Rachel Beck, 2021 Women in Engineering Railway Track & Structures
- 2021 Rising Stars: Stephani Bazata, Antonio Frazier and Carl Garrison Progressive Railroading
- Erin Batt, 2021 Fast Trackers Railway Age
- Clark Ponthier, 2021 Most Influential Leaders Railway Age
- Stephen Ashmore, 2021 10 Under 40 List Railway Track & Structures
- Lindsay Tettenborn, 2021 40 Under 40 List Midlands Business Journal
- Christi Hornick, 2021 Career Environmental Achievement Award Association of American Railroads