In memoriam: Our friend Joe Silverio

摘要

Last month, longtime rail supply industry executive Joe Silverio died following a battle with cancer. He was 61. Silverio most recently served as senior marketing manager with American Railcar Industries Inc. in St. Charles, Mo. He also was an adjunct professor of marketing at Lindenwood University in St. Charles. And he was a friend.rnI met Joe at one of the September rail shows in the late 1990s and got to know him during a couple of the early RailtecMexico shows in Monterrey. Pretty much from then on, I became accustomed to listening for (and leaning on) his big, infectious laugh, and his love of family (his own, mine - yours, if you knew him) and baseball (the Red Sox and the Redbirds). We kept in touch during the past decade, although never enough to our liking.