Mike Loehr
Practice Leader: Rail & Transit - U.S.
Michael Loehr, PE, is U.S. Rail & Transit Practice Leader for Hatch Mott MacDonald. He leads the development of innovative and cost-effective designs for rail and transit practice projects throughout the U.S., and assists project managers and project teams in meeting specific client needs and project requirements.
Mike has more than 34 years of extensive engineering, design, and construction experience on a wide variety of railroad industry projects, including ten years with Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) and 24 years of consulting. His expertise and insight has been honed through his work on rail passenger facilities, high speed rail projects, freight rail installations, railway bridges, commercial and industrial sites, and highways. He has worked on projects throughout North America as well as Indonesia, China, Jamaica, and West Africa. Recently, he served as the Project Manager and Lead Railroad Engineer for the award-winning Heartland Corridor Project, which received the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association’s (AREMA) W. W. Hay Award for Excellence, an international Brunel Award, and awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
Mike has authored or coauthored several technical papers covering a range of rail-related subjects including Hatch Mott MacDonald’s work on Norfolk Southern’s Heartland Corridor project. He is a member of ASCE and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and holds leadership positions in professional organizations including AREMA (Secretary of Committee 11,and Sub-Committee Chair of Committee 12), and the Transportation Research Board (Secretary of AP 070). In addition, he is an FRA-qualified Track inspector, and has been qualified on Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee’s (NORAC) rulebook.
Mike has more than 34 years of extensive engineering, design, and construction experience on a wide variety of railroad industry projects, including ten years with Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) and 24 years of consulting. His expertise and insight has been honed through his work on rail passenger facilities, high speed rail projects, freight rail installations, railway bridges, commercial and industrial sites, and highways. He has worked on projects throughout North America as well as Indonesia, China, Jamaica, and West Africa. Recently, he served as the Project Manager and Lead Railroad Engineer for the award-winning Heartland Corridor Project, which received the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association’s (AREMA) W. W. Hay Award for Excellence, an international Brunel Award, and awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
Mike has authored or coauthored several technical papers covering a range of rail-related subjects including Hatch Mott MacDonald’s work on Norfolk Southern’s Heartland Corridor project. He is a member of ASCE and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and holds leadership positions in professional organizations including AREMA (Secretary of Committee 11,and Sub-Committee Chair of Committee 12), and the Transportation Research Board (Secretary of AP 070). In addition, he is an FRA-qualified Track inspector, and has been qualified on Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee’s (NORAC) rulebook.