FreightCar America, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
January 06, 2021 at 10:00 pm
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On December 30, 2020, Terence R. Rogers was appointed and agreed to serve as the interim Chief Financial Officer of FreightCar America, Inc. (the Company") for a term of four months beginning on January 5, 2021. Until January 31, 2021, Mr. Rogers will serve concurrently with Christopher Eppel, who, as previously disclosed, will step down from his role as the Company's Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer and Corporate Secretary effective January 31, 2021. Mr. Rogers will also serve as the Company's principal accounting officer.
Mr. Rogers, age 61, most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Roadrunner Transportation Systems from May 2017 to August 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Rogers was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at The Heico Companies LLC from April 2012 to February 2017.
FreightCar America, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of railcars and railcar components. The Company designs and manufactures a broad variety of railcar types for transportation of bulk commodities and containerized freight products primarily in North America, including box cars, open top hoppers, covered hoppers, and gondolas along with intermodal and non-intermodal flat cars. The Company offers Versaflood II, open top hoppers in all steel and hybrid configurations (aluminum/stainless steel) with a patented automatic door system; 52 and 66 mill gondolas in multiple cubic capacities; rotary and non-rotary aggregate gondolas; triple hoppers in all steel and hybrid configurations; intermodal flats (including single unit, 2 unit and 3 unit, 53 well cars) and non-intermodal flat cars including 64 - 89 length for general purpose, steel slab (hot and cold), and bulkhead flats. It offers covered hopper railcar product offerings encompass a wide range of cubic foot (CF) capacity designs.