After some contentious jockeying with leadership, Ackman pulled renowned
rail industry veteran Hunter Harrison out of retirement and installed him as CEO.
«There are 180,000 miles of abandoned railroad corridors around the country, and about 13,000 of these miles have been converted to trails,» says Della Penna, a sales associate with The Murphys Inc., REALTORS ®, in Northampton, Mass, and a 20 - year
veteran of the railroad
industry who has written several books on the
rails - to - trails movement.