List of railroad executives

This is a list of railroad executives, defined as those who are presidents and chief executive officers of railroad and railway systems worldwide.

A

Abbot, Edwin H. (1834–1927), WC −1890 Adams, Charles Francis Jr. (1835–1915), UP 1884–1890 Adams, Melvin O. (1847–1920), BRB&L Aikman, Frank Jr., LIRR 1967–1969 Allen, Horatio (1802–1889), Erie 1843–1844 Allen, John W. (1802–1887), C&NR 1834, CC&C 1845The Political Graveyard (March 10, 2005), Politicians in Railroading in Connecticut . Retrieved December 29, 2005. Allyn, Henry G. Jr., P&LE 1969–1993 Alpert, George, NH Altschul, Selig, D&H 1977 Ames, Oliver Jr. (1807–1877), UP 1866–1871Spencer Marks (2005), The Ames Family of North Easton, MA . Retrieved December 29, 2005.PBS; The American Experience, People & Events: Oakes Ames (1804–1873) . Retrieved December 29, 2005.Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific: Significant Individuals . Retrieved December 29, 2005. Anderson, Richard H. (b. 1955), Amtrak 2017–2020 Anderson, Samuel J., P&OLegg, John F. (January 17, 1999), . Retrieved December 29, 2005. Anschutz, Philip (born 1939), RG 1984–1988, SP 1988–1996 Archbald, James (1793–1870), LSMS 1854–1856 Arndt, Otto, DR 1970–1989 Ashby, G. F., UP 1946–1949 Ashley, James Mitchell (1824–1896), AA Atkinson, Arthur K. (1892–1964), WAB 1947–1960 Atterbury, William W. (1866–1935), PRR 1925–1935 Augustowski, Tadeusz, PKP −2005Railway Market (January 7, 2006), Management Changes in PKP Companies . Retrieved January 10, 2006.

B

Baer, George Frederick (1842–1914), RDG 1901–1914 Bailey, E. H., UP 1965–1971 Baldwin, William H. Jr. (1863–1905), LIRR 1896–1905 Bancroft, William Amos (1855–1922), BER 1899– Bandeen, Robert (1930–2010), CN 1974–1982 Banfield, Edward (1837–1872), GFS (1865–1872) Barriger, John W., III (1899–1976), Monon 1946–1953, P&LE 1956–1964, MKT 1965–1970, B&M 1973–1974 Bauer, Kenneth J., LIRR 2000–2003 Beatty, Edward Wentworth (1877–1943), CPR 1918–1943 Beckley, Thomas M., SOO 1978–1983 Beeching, Richard (1913–1985), BR 1961–1965 Belozyorov, Oleg (b. 1969), Russian Railways 2015-present Bennett, James I., P&LE 1877–1881 Berdell, Robert H., Erie 1864–1867 Bernet, John J. (1868–1935), NKP 1916–1926, Erie 1927–1929, C&O 1929–1932, NKP 1933–1935 Bertrand, Charles E., D&H 1977–1978 Besener, Willi, DR 1946–1949 Beven, John L., IC 1938–1945Stover, John F., Purdue University, The Management of the Illinois Central Railroad in the 20th Century (PDF). Retrieved February 9, 2006. Biaggini, Benjamin (1916–2005), SP 1964–1983 Billings, Frederick H. (1823–1890), NP 1879–1881 Blackstone, Timothy B. (1829–1900), CA 1864–1899 Blake, Ronald James (b. 1934), KCRC 2006–present Bledsoe, Samuel T. (1868–1939), ATSF 1933–1939 Boardman, Joseph H. (1948–2019), Amtrak 2008–2016 Boatner, Victor V. (1881–1950), CGW 1929–1931 Bolton, John, D&H 1826–1831 Bond, Frank S., RDG 1883– Bond, Hiram (1838–1906), TCI 1889–1891 Borne, Élisabeth (b. 1961), RATP 2015–2017 Bowen, James (1808–1886), Erie 1841–1842 Bowman, Hollis, MEC 1863–1864 Boyd, Alan Stephenson (1922–2020), IC 1969–1972, Amtrak 1978–1982 Brooke, George D., C&O 1933–, PM 1933–, NKP 1935–, VGN Brosnan, D. William (1903–1985), SOU 1962–1967 Brown, Revelle W., RDG Bruce, Harry J., IC 1983–1990 Bryant, Gridley (1789–1867), Granite Railway Bryant, Robert E., BBRR -present Budd, John M. (1907–1979), CEI 1947–1949, GN 1951–1970, BN 1970–1972 Budd, Ralph (1879–1962), GN 1919–1932, CB&Q 1932–1949 Buenrostro, Hugo Jiménez, KCSM 2006–present Buford, Algernon S. (1826–1911), R&D 1865–1892 Buford, Curtis D., P&LE 1965–1969 Burbidge, Fred, CPR 1972–1981 Burdakin, John H., GTW Burkhardt, Ed, WC 1987–1999, Railworld 2000–present Burns, John J., Alleghany Corporation Burns, Ron (b. 1953), UP 1996 Burt, Horace G. (1849–1913), UP 1898–1904 Burtness, Harold W. (1897–1978), CGW 1946–1948 Bury, Oliver Robert Hawke (1861–1946), GWR Brazil 1892–1894, GNR 1902–1912, LNER 1912–1945 Bush, Benjamin Franklin (1860–1927), WM 1907–1911, MP 1911–1923, D&RG 1912–1915, WP 1913–1915 Busiel, Charles Albert (1842–1901), LSR, C&MThe Political Graveyard (March 10, 2005), Politicians in Railroading in New Hampshire . Retrieved December 29, 2005. Butzelaar, Frank, SRY 2008–present

C

Cable, Ransom Reed, RI 1883–1898 Cahill, Michael Harrison, MKT 1930–1933 Calhoun, Patrick (1856–1943), URRSF Calvin, E. E., UP 1916–1918 Carpenter, Alvin "Pete" (1942–2019), CSX 1992–1999 Carter, George L. (1857–1936),CRR Carter, Thomas S. (1921–2019), KCS 1973–1986 Cass, George Washington (1810–1888), O&P 1856, PFW&C 1857–83, NP 1872–75 Cassatt, Alexander (1839–1906), PRR 1899–1906 Cavanaugh, Dennis Miles, SOO 1983–1986, 1987–1989 Celinski, Krzysztof, PKP 2005–present Chapin, Chester W. (1798–1883), B&A 1868–1878 Charlick, Oliver, LIRR 1863–1875 Chipley, William Dudley (1840–1897), C&R, P&A Christy, Doug, IAIS Clark, Horace F. (1815–1873), UP 1872–1873 Clark, John P., NYSW Clark, S.H.H. (1837–1900), UP 1892–1898 Clarke, F. B., SP&S 1907– Claytor, Robert B. (1922–1993), N&W 1981–1982, NS 1982–1993 Claytor, W. Graham Jr. (1912–1994), SOU 1967–1977, Amtrak 1982–1993 Clement, Martin W. (1881–1966), PRR 1935–1948 Coe, William R. (1869–1955), VGN Coholan, Ryan D (2014–present), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Coleman, D'Alton Corry (1879–1956), CPR 1942–1947 Coleman, William C. (1901–1976), Monon 1962–1967 Coliton, William P., CSS&SB 1961– Colket, Coffin, LIRR 1862–1863 Collins, David J., BPRR -present Colnon, Aaron, RI 1942–1947 Conti, P. Scott, PW 2005–present Cooke, Jay (1821–1905), NP Coolidge, T. Jefferson (1831–1920), ATSF 1880–1881 Corbin, Austin (1827–1896), LIRR 1881–1896 Corning, Erastus (1794–1872), U&S 1830s–1853, NYC 1853–1865 Côté, Paul (b. 1951), Via 2005–2010 Couch, C. P. "Pete" (1890–1955), KCS 1939–1941 Couch, Harvey C. (1877–1941), KCS 1939 Cowen, John K. (1844–1904), B&O 1896–1901 Crane, L. Stanley,L. Stanley Crane, (b. Cincinnati, 1915) raised in Washington, lived in McLean before moving to Philadelphia in 1981. He began his career with Southern Railway after graduating from The George Washington University with a chemical engineering degree in 1938. He worked for the railroad, except for a stint from 1959 to 1961 with the Pennsylvania Railroad, until reaching the company's mandatory retirement age in 1980. Crane went to Conrail in 1981 after a distinguished career that had seen him rise to the position of CEO at the Southern Railway. He died of pneumonia on July 15, 2003 at a hospice in Boynton Beach, Fla. SOU 1977–1980 Crocker, Charles (1822–1888), CP Crosbie, William, Amtrak (acting) 2008 Crowley, Patrick E. (1864–1953), NYC 1924–1931, RUT 1924–1941 Crump, Norris Ray "Buck" (1904–1989), CPR 1955–1964 and 1966 Crush, William, MKT Culver, Andrew, Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad

D Davidson, Richard K. (b. 1942), UP (president) 1991–1996 (CEO) 1997–2006 Davis, Champion McDonald, ACL Davis, James, UTAH 2002–2008 Davis, Jerry, CSX 1989–1995, SP 1995–1996, UP 1996–1998 Davis, John Marcus, DLW 1925–1940 deButts, Harry A., SOU 1951–1962 deForest, Henry, SP 1925–1932 Delatour, H.L., LIRR 1949–1950 Denney, Charles E. (1879–1965), Erie 1929–1939, NP 1939–1950 Depew, Chauncey M. (1834–1928), NYC 1885–1898 Deramus, William N. Jr. (1888–1965), KCS 1941–1961 Deramus, William N., III (1915–1989), CGW 1949–1957, MKT 1957–1961, KCS 1961–1973 Deramus, William N., IV (b. 1944), KCS 1986–1990 Dermody, James J., LIRR 2003–2006 Dickinson, Jacob M. (1851–1928), RI 1915–1917 Dickson, Thomas, D&H 1869–1884 Dillon, Sidney (1812–1892), UP 1874–1884 and 1890–1892 Dix, John Adams (1798–1879), C&RI, M&M, UP 1863–1868, Erie 1872 Dixon, William J., RI 1970–1974 Dodge, Edwin V., SOO 1989– Donnelly, Charles (1869–1939), NP 1920–1939Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1939. Dorpmuller, Julius (1869–1945), Deutsche Reichsbahn 1926–1945 Dougherty, A. A., SMV 1911– Downs, Lawrence A., IC 1926–1938 Downs, Thomas, Amtrak 1993–1998 Draney, Herbert J., NYSW −1968 Draper, William Henry Jr. (1894–1974), LIRR 1950–1951 Drew, Daniel (1797–1879), Erie 1857–1870 Drusch, William F., TCW 2001–2007 Ducharme, Rick (b. 1948), GO 1993–1999, TTC 1999–2006 Duff, John, UP 1873–1874 Dumaine, Frederick C. Jr., NH 1951–1954, D&H 1967–1968 Durant, Charles W., RI 1863–1866 Dürr, Heinz (b. 1933), DB 1991–1993, DB AG 1993–1997

E Eaton, Cyrus S. (1883–1979), C&O 1950s Edson, Job A. (1854–1928), KCS 1905–1918 and 1920–1927 Edwards, George W. (b. 1939), KCS 1991–1995 Eldridge, John S., Erie 1867–1868 Elliott, Howard (1860–1928), NP 1903–1913, NH 1913–1917 Emerson, Robert A. "Bob", CPR 1964–1966 Engel, Edward J., ATSF 1939–1944 Erickson, E.O. "Jim", AA -present Eriksen, Søren, DSB 2006–2011 Evans, Ike, UP 1998–2004

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Fadeev, Gennady, Russian Railways Farnam, Henry (1803–1883), RI 1854–1863 Farrington, John Dow, RI 1948–1955 Felton, Samuel Morse Jr. (1853–1930), CA 1899–1908, CGW 1909–1929 Fernandez, Vicente Corta, TFM April 2005 – July 2005 Finley, William, SOU 1906–1913 Finney, F. N., SOO 1890–1892 Fish, Stuyvesant (1851–1923), IC 1887–1906 Fishwick, John "Jack" P., EL, D&H 1968–1970, N&W 1970–1981 Fisk, George B., LIRR 1839–1847 Fisk, James ("Big Jim") (1834–1872), Erie Fitzgerald, J. M. (b. 1877), WM 1913–1914 Flagler, Henry Morrison (1830–1913), FEC 1885–1913 Fleming, Joseph B., RI 1933–1947 Flynn, William J., Amtrak 2020– Forbes, John Murray (1813–1898), MC 1846–1855, CB&Q Fordyce, Samuel W. (1840–1919), SLA&T 1886–1889, SSW 1890–1898, KCS 1900 Franklin, Walter S., PRR 1948–1954, LIRR 1954–1955 Fraser, Donald V., MKT 1945–1956 Frederick, William A., CFNR 1993– Furth, Alan, SP 1979–1982

G

Gabreski, Francis S. (1919–2002), LIRR 1978–1981 Gadsden, James (1788–1858), South Carolina Rail Road 1840–1850 Gallois, Louis (b. 1944), SNCF 1996–2006 Gamble, Patrick K. (b. 1945), ARR 2001–present Gardner, Stephen J. (b. 1975), Amtrak 2009–2025 Gardner, William A., CNW 1910–1916 Gardner, William E., WSOR 1988–present McClellan George B. (1826-1885), P 1857-1859 Garneau, Cynthia, VIA 2019–present Garrett, John W. (1820–1884), B&O 1858–1884 Garrett, Robert, II (1847–1896), B&O 1884–1887 Gastler, Harold L., MKT 1975–1988 George, W. H. Krome (1918–2004), NS 1979–1990 Gibbons, William M. (1919–1990), RI 1975–1984 Gibson, Gary, IHB -present Giles, John, RailAmerica, FEC 2008–present Gilliland, Jack E., AT&N, SLSF 1965– Gilmore, Robert C., SOO 1986–1987 Gillouard, Catherine, RATP 2017–present Gohlke, Reiner, DB 1982–1990 Goode, David R. (b. 1941), NS 1991–2005 Goodenow, William, MEC 1862–1863 Goodfellow, Thomas M., LIRR 1955–1967 Gordon, Donald (1901–1969), CN 1950–1966 Gorman, James E. (died 1942), RI 1917–1942 Gorman, Paul, PC Goto, Shinpei (1857–1929), South Manchuria Railway 1906–1908 Gould, George Jay, I (1864–1923), DRGW, WP, MP 1892–1915 Gould, Jay (1836–1892), Erie 1868–1872, UP 1870s–1883, New York City elevated railroads 1881–1888, MP 1879–1892 Gowen, Franklin B. (1836–1889), RDG 1866–1883 Granet, Guy, Sir (1867–1943), Midland Railway (UK) 1906–1922, LMS 1923–1927 Grant, James (1812–1891), RI 1851–1854 Gray, Carl R. (1867–1939), GN 1912–1914, WM 1914–1919, UP 1920–1937 Green, Chris, Virgin Rail Group 1999–2005, Network Rail 2005–2010 Green, Fred J., CPR 2005–presentCanadian Pacific Railway, Fred Green, President and Chief Operating Officer . Retrieved February 22, 2006. Greenough, Allen J. (1905–1974), PRR 1960–1968 Grinstein, Gerald (b. 1932), BN 1985–1995 Grout, H. C., SOO 1944–1949 Grube, Rüdiger (b. 1951), DB 2009–2017 Gunn, David L. (b. 1937), SEPTA 1979–1984, New York City MTA 1984–1990, WMATA 1991–1994, TTC 1995–1999, Amtrak 2002–2005 Gurley, Fred (1889–1976), ATSF 1944–1958

H

Hagerman, John J. (1838–1909), CM 1885–1890 Hall, Harold H., SOU 1980–1982 Hall, John Manning, NH 1899−1903