series EMU North America 2011 E. H. Harriman Awards Awards presented by Railway Age magazine 2011 Railroader of the Year: Wick Moorman (NS) 2011 Regional Railroad of the Year: 2011 Short Line Railroad of the Year: United Kingdom Train Operator of the Year 2011: South West Trains Deaths 15 January – Francesco di Majo, designer of the Pendolino (born 1910). 4 May – Richard Steinheimer, American railroad photographer, dies (b. 1929). 10 July – William D. Middleton, well-known American rail-transport writer (b. 1928). 29 July – Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, chairman of British Rail 1971–1976, dies (b. 1928). 20 October – Roger Tallon, designer of the TGV (born 1929). References