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The International Crosstie and Fastening System Symposium will be an in-person event on the campus of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign held on 4-5 June 2024. The Symposium will be held in conjunction with the AREMA Committee 30 (Ties) spring meeting on 6 June 2024.

Transit Keynote Address
CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization Phase One Project: Overcoming Challenging Constraints

Carrie Wagener
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
First Deputy Chief Engineer

Carrie Wagener, PE, is First Deputy Chief Engineer at the nation’s second largest public transit agency, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), where she oversees civil/track, structures, signal, and traction power design and construction within the Infrastructure Engineering department.  She additionally directs the owner’s multi-disciplinary engineering team for the $2.1B Red and Purple Modernization (RPM) Phase One project, CTA’s largest-ever capital improvement project to renew heavy rail infrastructure along its busiest rail lines.  A 16-year CTA veteran, Carrie has worked in various departments including track maintenance, power & way maintenance, safety, and quality assurance. Carrie is an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she earned both bachelors and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering.

Class I Railroad Keynote Address

Brent Laing
CN Railway
Vice-President, Engineering

Brent Laing was appointed Vice-President, Engineering in June 2022. He has more than 32 years of experience in the railway industry at Canadian Pacific where he last held the position of Vice-President and Chief Engineer. After Brent left CP in 2016, he started his own engineering consulting firm covering the rail sector.

Brent holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. He is based in Edmonton, AB.