Who's Who list by name, surname beginning with F

  • Fairburn, Charles (1887-1945) - Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945.
  • Fairlie, Robert F. (1831-1885) - English steam locomotive builder; namesake of the Fairlie locomotive type.
  • Fallberg, Carl (1915-1996) - Cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis.
  • Farnam, Henry (1803-1883) - President of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad 1854-1863.
  • Felton, Samuel Morse, Jr. (1853-1930) - President of Chicago & Alton Railroad 1899-1908, Chicago Great Western Railway 1909-1925.
  • Fernandez, Vicente Corta - Interim CEO of Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana in 2005.
  • Ferreira, Douglas (1929-2003) - General manager of Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 1961-1994.
  • Finley, William W. - President of Southern Railway (U.S.) __-1913.
  • Fischer, Louis E. (1876-1952) - Superintendent-Power House of Danville Street Railway & Light Company 1901-1902; general manager of Danville, Champaign & Urbana Railway 1902-1906; vice president and general manager of Illinois Traction System 1906-1909; president and general manager of St. Louis Troy & Eastern Railway 1925-1927; president of Illinois Traction System 1927-1928; continued as president after its reorganization into the Illinois Terminal Railroad 1928-1933.
  • Fish, Stuyvesant (1851-1923) - President of Illinois Central Railroad 1887-1907.
  • Fisk, Jim (1834-1872) - American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad.
  • Flagler, Henry Morrison (1830-1913) - Founder and president of Florida East Coast Railway.
  • Fleming, Sanford (1827-1915) - Surveyor for Canadian Pacific Railway who set up Canadian time zones.
  • Fletcher, E. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for North Eastern Railway 1854-1882.
  • Forbes, George William (1869-1947) - New Zealand Minister of Railways 1931-1935.
  • Forbes, John M. (1813-1898) - President of Michigan Central Railroad 1846-1855, director and president of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the 1850s.
  • Fordyce, Samuel W. (1840-1919) - President of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889; president of St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898; president of Kansas City Southern Railway in 1900.
  • Forney, Matthias N. (1835-1908) - American steam locomotive manufacturer.
  • Foster, James (1786-1853) - English ironworker and partner with John Urpeth Rastrick in Foster, Rastrick & Co., the company that built the Stourbridge Lion.
  • Fowler, Henry (1870-1938) - Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909-1923; Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925-1931.
  • Fox, Charles (1810-1874) - Assisted in the construction of Novelty for the Rainhill Trials.  Patentee in 1832 of the railway switch using movable points.  Later went on to engineer many standard and narrow gauge projects throughout the British Empire.
  • Fox, H. R. - General manager of Jamaica Railway in the mid-20th century.
  • Fuller, Philo C. (1787-1855) - President of Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad.