Spring 2012 Freight Notes
The Spring 2012 edition of the MAFC Freight Notes is now available. This issue is devoted to a review of the 2012 Mid-America Freight Coalition Annual Meeting, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Leadership and Freight History
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