Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.

I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Troy Penny, the global vice president

of information technology at Harsko Rail.

Welcome to the show, Troy.

Thank you, Doug, and I appreciate you having me on. Yeah. So, Troy, before we got on the podcast here,

we're, you know, familiarizing ourselves with some of our backgrounds and stuff like that. And

you work for this place called Harsco Rail is an interesting, an interesting company. And this is

like one of those

things where it's like a niche business for something specialized that you'd be like, I can't

believe somebody made a whole business out of this. But that of course, when you think about it,

you're like, of course there has to be a business for somebody doing it. But, you know, like,

it's a company that specializes in, in, I think you described it as rail safety.

I'll say a little bit and that lets you kind of like elaborate, but in like the rail safety space.

So these machines that you see crawling along the tracks, like maintaining things, like pull it out rail ties and fixing, fix in the rock and all this other stuff like that.

And this is what this company does.

I mean, in the old days, Doug, as you know,

you had whole crews out there working the track and laying track and repairing track

and replacing ties and replacing spikes, etc.

And Harsco Rail has actually been in business for over 100 years.

And we've been building machines and technologies that automate most of that stuff.

There's still humans that need to be involved to read the machine telemetry and the track

geometries and validate solutions and things like that, but primarily the machine will do everything

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