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UTA Wins Top Honors at 2018 Rail Rodeo
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) in Salt Lake City received the Rail Transit Team Achievement Award—given to the system with the highest combined score for its rail operators and maintenance team—at the 2018 APTA Rail Rodeo Banquet, June 10 in Denver.
Los Angeles Metro’s combined team placed second in the overall competition, while the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, CA, came in third.
Among rail operator teams, first place went to Kuljinder Bath and Hossein Ramirez of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, CA, followed by Narciso Garcia and Robert Dennis of the host agency, Denver’s Regional Transportation District, in second place and UTA’s Logan Packer and Curtis Turley of Utah in third. The operators’ competition measures professional skills including train operation, knowledge of safety regulations, train equipment and track right-of-way rules and procedures.
Los Angeles Metro’s team of Marcos Martinez, Parker Rounds and Jose Padilla took the top honor in the Maintainers Competition, which evaluates participants on their ability to troubleshoot maintenance problems. Second place went to the team from Philadelphia’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority—Gary Geyer, Cameron Massaro and Dan Compton—and the UTA maintainer team of Jody Fairbourn, Ryan Gardner and Kris Peterson won third place.
This year’s rodeo competition included 18 teams of operators and 15 mechanic teams from the U.S. and Japan.
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The Utah Transit Authority received the Rail Transit Team Achievement Award, as well as third-place honors for operators Logan Packer and Curtis Turley and maintenance team members Jody Fairbourn, Ryan Gardner and Kris Peterson. APTA Chair Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., far left, and APTA President and CEO Paul P. Skoutelas, far right, presented the awards at the International Rail Rodeo Banquet.
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The maintenance team from Los Angeles Metro—Marcos Martinez, Parker Rounds and Jose Padilla—took first place in the maintainers’ competition.
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Kuljinder Bath and Hossein Ramirez, representing the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, placed first among rail operator teams.
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