Three decades chasing the sleeping giant of fuel conservation.

I'm Wayne Kennedy — founder of Kennedy Consulting and the person who started a fuel-conservation group at Union Pacific back in 2004.

For more than thirty years I've worked to make freight railroading consume less fuel and move more freight. At Union Pacific I built the railroad's first dedicated fuel-conservation program — a body of work credited with helping save over $1 billion in fuel expense and cut fuel consumption by roughly 12%. Along the way I designed and operated a 50-foot mach 0.2 subsonic wind tunnel, the only one of its kind in railroading, and partnered with Brigham Young University's engineering capstone program to accelerate aerodynamic discovery.

Today I work independently with railroads, suppliers, research institutions, and technology firms across North America — on aerodynamics, fuel conservation, GIS and fuel-flow mapping, emissions reduction, merger-impact analysis, and ROI studies for new locomotive and biofuel technologies. I hold six U.S. patents covering rail-car aerodynamics, drag reduction, and locomotive performance.

I'm a member of LMOA, I publish and speak regularly on rail fuel efficiency and sustainability. My approach is simple: data-driven, field-tested, and focused on results that move the needle.