Article: ... with DM&E President and CEO .(on the record ...)(dialogue with Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corp. president Kevin V. Schieffer)(Interview)

"I love to say I got started in this business fighting with railroads, DM&E President and CEO Kevin Schieffer told mc last month. And that fight has continued throughout his career: from campaigning against Chicago & North Western's 1985 bid to abandon a South Dakota segment of what is today the DM&E Railroad, to battling for nearly a decade to build a $6 billion, 280-mile line into Wyoming's Powder River Basin that competes with BNSF and Union Pacific--with a proposed $2.3 billion Federal Railroad Administration RRIF loan.

He won the first fight, and the victories for the second are slowly piling up (despite fierce opposition from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, ...

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