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Rail mag honors Cannito

June
26

Peter Cannito, the outgoing president ofMetro-North Railroad, is this year’s winner of the W. Graham Claytor Award for Distinguished Service to Passenger Transportation.

The award given, annually by Railway Age mgazine, is named for a late Amtrak president.

Cannito, an Armonk resident, has been president of Metro-North since June, 1999. He plans to retire next month.

He’ll receive the award at Railway Age’s Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads Conference in Washington D.C. on Oct. 22, 2008.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am by Ken Valenti.
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