“The railroad of tomorrow is going to be vastly different. They’re absolutely on the cusp of big transformational change,” says Patrick Lortie, transportation expert with Oliver Wyman.

Hear from railroad employees about how technology empowers them to do their jobs more safely and efficiently, including a high-flying drone operator in Chicago, a certified PTC locomotive engineer in Georgia and a track geometry engineer in Virginia.

From mobile apps that track customer shipments to technology that inspects the equivalent of 563,200 football fields worth of track, freight rail’s billions in annual investments power the network of the future.