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Hoppe, Past LIRR President
 Charles W. (Chuck) Hoppe, 80, president of MTA Long Island Rail Road from 1990-94, died Dec. 22 in Arlington, VA. Originally from a suburb of Cleveland, Hoppe had a quarter century of experience in railroad management and consulting at the time he was selected to lead the LIRR by New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority then-Chairman Robert R. Kiley.
In the mid-1970s, Hoppe worked for the United States Railway Association, developing a plan to reorganize various bankrupt northeast railroads into what became Conrail, the predecessor, among other things, to MTA Metro-North Railroad. |
Goss, Q’Straint Employee
 John Goss, 84, a former sales and technical expert with Q’Straint, died Jan. 3. Goss’s involvement with Q’Straint began during his 15-year career as director of transportation and facilities for Marana Schools in Tucson, AZ. After he retired in 1989, Q’Straint offered him a contract job as the company’s first outside sales and technical expert, assisting with specifications and regulations, working trade shows and training the sales team. Goss also played a major role in developing the Q’Straint National Training Seminar program.
Welke, Past Michigan DOT Director
 Robert A. (Bob) Welke, 81, of Coldwater, MI, whose tenure as director of Michigan DOT capped a 40-year career with the agency, died Jan. 16. Welke joined Mich. DOT as a surveying rodman in 1958 and worked as a licensed professional engineer for 39 years, becoming the agency’s director in 1996. He retired the following year and was inducted into the Michigan Transportation Hall of Honor in 2006.
Gellman, Transportation Expert and Scholar
 Aaron J. Gellman, 85, a transportation scholar and director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center from 1992-2000, died Jan. 11. Gellman was a professor of management and strategy at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a professor of industrial engineering and management sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He became a professor of transportation at the center after his tenure as director and retired from the faculty in 2014. He had more than 50 years of experience in the transportation industry where his research focused on economics, regulation and policy.
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