James Danielwicz
Vice-President, Operations-Mechanical

Jim Danielwicz was appointed Vice-President – Mechanical Department in January 2006. He is directly responsible for the major locomotive repair shops at Edmonton, Symington, MacMillan, Woodcrest and Memphis, as well as the major repair facilities at Transcona and Centralia. He is also responsible for all the locomotive and car maintenance for the CN Mechanical locations throughout North America.

Mr. Danielwicz has over 30 years of railroading experience, having joined the Illinois Central in 1973 as a Machinist apprentice. He was appointed to the position of Chief Mechanical Officer for CN in 2002. Prior to that, he held the position of Mechanical Superintendent, Locomotives from 1999-2002, which was his position at the time of the CN and IC merger. Formerly with Illinois Central, he held the prior positions of General Superintendent Mechanical/Locomotive System, Mechanical Superintendent Locomotive, General Superintendent Mechanical Locomotive, Superintendent Mechanical, Superintendent Air Brakes, Division Air Brake Foreman, General Foreman, and Mechanical Foreman.

Mr. Danielwicz was instrumental in bringing the proven concept of asset utilization and operational efficiency from the Illinois Central into practicality with CN, by leading the reduction of the size of the locomotive fleet, all the while maintaining on time performance with high locomotive availability and reliability standards.

Since attending Arkansas University, Mr. Danielwicz has accumulated numerous certificates from courses in senior management studies, locomotives systems and performance, all aspects of freight car operations, air brakes, telemetry, electronics and computers. He is currently a member of the Locomotive Maintenance Officer's Association and has been a former chairperson and member of various Association of American Railroad executive locomotive and car committees.