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G&O Promotes Starnes to COO
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor![Chris Starnes, COO, Gulf & Ohio Railways](https://clone.railwayage.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GandO.png)
Chris Starnes, COO, Gulf & Ohio Railways
Short line holding company Gulf & Ohio Railways (G&O) has elevated Chris Starnes to Chief Operating Officer.
Starnes was hired in 2008 as the designated Supervisor of Locomotive Engineers for the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad, one of five G&O short line subsidiaries. He became G&O’s Revenue Manager in 2016, and was named General Manager of the company’s Lancaster & Chester Railroad three years later. A qualified steam engineer, Starnes has also helped with G&O’s Three Rivers Rambler tourist train in Knoxville, Tenn.