Dustin Scott Hinkle

Dustin Hinkle is the Service Manager at RailQuip, responsible for all equipment they sell from Canada to Mexico. He has spent 34 years in the railroad industry, beginning at age 14 by working weekends with his father on locomotives at coal mines. After his father retired from the railroad and started a company, Dustin worked as a contractor for several years before joining RailQuip as lead technician and advancing to service manager. His background includes government contract work with X-ray and testing equipment at Leidos, where he often taught classes, as well as contracts with Progress Rail (owned by Caterpillar) assisting in locomotive builds and with SCRRA in Los Angeles on a major project to place 40 leased locomotives into service after a derailment. A self-described jack-of-all-trades, Dustin has served as mechanic, technician, electrician, and communicator, frequently training employees and temporarily running operations such as a passenger rail line out of Camp Pendleton in California. He graduated high school a year early due to earning sufficient credits as an overachiever and credits his father, a former Marine, for instilling his strong work ethic. Outside his primary role, Dustin co-writes children's books with his daughter and donates to All Hands and All Hearts.