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Biographical information about prominent people in rail transport worldwide.

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

December 22, 2011 - 11:57 — Slambo
  • Page, William N. (1854-1924) - American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway.
  • Palmer, William Jackson (1836-1909) - Builder of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
  • Payne, Henry C. (1843-1904) - President of Milwaukee & Northern Railroad, president of Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company, president of Milwaukee & Cream City Traction Company, president of American Street Railway Association in 1893, appointed receiver for Northern Pacific Railway in August 1893.
  • Pease, Edward (1767-1858) - First owner of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
  • Pelletier, Jean (1935-2009) - Chairman of VIA Rail 2001-2004.
  • Pelley, John Jeremiah - President of the Association of American Railroads. (Palmer 1942)
  • Perben, Dominique (born 1945) - Minister of Transportation for France 2005-2007.
  • Perkins, George Clement (1839-1923) - Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Railroads 1913-1915
  • Perris, Fred T. - (1836-1916) Chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe that built the route through Cajon Pass. (Serpico 1988)
  • Phelan, James D. (1861-1930) - Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Railroads 1915-1917.
  • Pickersgill, W. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great North of Scotland Railway 1894-1914.
  • Plant, Henry B. (1819-1899) - President of the Plant System.
  • Pollitt, H. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great Central Railway 1897-1900.

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

December 14, 2011 - 17:20 — Slambo
  • 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.

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

December 14, 2011 - 17:12 — Slambo
  • Macfarlane, Robert Stetson (born 1899) - President of Northern Pacific Railway 1951-1966.
  • Mackenzie, William (1849-1923) - Part owner of Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors.
  • Mahone, William (1826-1895) - American civil engineer who built the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad.
  • Mallet, Anatole (1837-1917) - Inventor of the Mallet articulated steam locomotive type.
  • Mallory, Francis (1807-1860) - Financier and a founder of the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad.
  • Malmborg, Oscar (1820-1880) - Swedish-born U.S. immigration agent for Illinois Central Railroad 1853-1861.
  • Manson, J. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great North of Scotland Railway 1883-1890.
  • Manvel, Allen (1837-1893) - Succeeded William B.

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

November 25, 2011 - 10:20 — Slambo
  • Kalmbach, Al C. - Founder of Kalmbach Publishing Company, the publisher of Model Railroader and Trains magazines as well as a large number of books about railroading.
  • Kandó, Kálmán (1869-1931) - Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902.
  • Kellogg, William Pitt (1830-1918) - Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Railroads 1881-1883.
  • Kendrick, John William (1853-1924) - Chief engineer, general manager and vice president of Northern Pacific Railway 1899-1901; vice chairman of the board for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 1901-1905.
  • Kennett, Luther Martin (1807-1873) - Vice president of Pacific Railroad Company; president of St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad 1853.
  • Kent, Marvin (1816-1908) - One of the founders of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad.
  • Keyes, Henry (1810-1870) - Helped to revitalize the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad; president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 1869-1870.
  • Kidde, Walter (1877-1943) - President of New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway 1937-1943.
  • Kiley, John P. - President of the Milwaukee Road until 1957.
  • Frederick J. Kimball Frederick J.

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

November 8, 2011 - 21:36 — Slambo
  • Janney, Eli H. (1831-1912) - Inventor of the modern knuckle coupler.
  • Jay, John (1805-1872) - British contractor and stonemason whose projects included the Stoke-on-Trent station, part of the Great Northern Railway at King's Cross station, King's Cross goods and passenger stations, London Underground's Metropolitan Line, Colchester station and much of Paddington station.
  • Jayant, M. S. - General manager of the South Central Railway Zone in India.
  • Jenks, Downing B. - President of Missouri Pacific Railroad. (Railway Age, July 13, 1970, p 60)
  • Jewell, B. M. - President of the Railway Employees division of the American Federation of Labor.
  • Johnson, J. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great North of Scotland Railway 1890-1894.
  • Johnson, S. W. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great Eastern Railway 1866-1873.
  • Johnston, Charles E. (1881-1951) - president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928-1938.
  • Jones, Charles - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Metropolitan Railway.
  • Jones, Wm. A. - General Manager of Mineral Point & Northern Railway.
  • Joyce, Patrick H. (1879-1946) - President of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946.
  • Judah, Theodore D. (1826-1863) - Chief engineer for Central Pacific Railroad and one of the earlier promoters of a transcontinental railroad across North America.

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

November 8, 2011 - 21:34 — Slambo
  • Cable, Ransom Reed - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad 1883-1898.
  • Cadman, Alfred (1847-1905) - New Zealand Minister of Railways 1895-1899.
  • Cahill, Michael Harrison - Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1930-1933.
  • Cail, Jean-François (1804-1871) - French steam locomotive builder and licensee of the Crampton type locomotive in France.
  • Calhoun, Patrick (1856-1943) - United Railroads of San Francisco.
  • Calthorp, Everard (1857-1927) - British railway engineer, promoter and builder of narrow gauge railways; founded the Barsi Light Railway in 1895; served as a consultant for a number of narrow gauge railways around the world.
  • Calthorp, Guy (1870-1919) - Began railroad career with the London & North Western Railway in 1886; General Superintendent of Caledonian Railway 1902-1908, General Manager of same 1908-1910; General Manager of Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway 1910-1913; General Manager of London & North Western Railway 1914-1919.
  • Calvin, E. E. - Union Pacific Railroad 1916-1918.
  • Camden, Johnson N. (1828-1908) - Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Railroads 1893-1894.
  • Campbell, Henry R. (1807-1879) - Patentee of the 4-4-0 locomotive.
  • Campbell, James - Chairman of the Board for Alaska Railroad 1984-__.
  • Campbell, John Williams (1880-1957) - Director for New York Central Railroad 1920-__; chairman of the board for Hudson & Manhattan Railroad __-1957.
  • Carper, Thomas C.

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

November 6, 2011 - 20:07 — Slambo
  • Baer, George Frederick (1842-1914) - Reading Company 1901-__.
  • Bailey, E. H. - Union Pacific Railroad 1965-1971.
  • Bailey, Ron L. (born 1926) - New Zealand Minister of Railways 1974-1975.
  • Baird, Matthew (1817-1877) - Locomotive designer, apprenticed at New Castle Manufacturing Company 1834-1836, shop superintendent at Newcastle & Frenchtown Railroad, boiler and sheet metal shop foreman at Baldwin Locomotive Works 1838, designed the French & Baird spark arrestor 1842, known as using the firebrick arch in 1854 three years before Griggs' patent, parter at Baldwin Locomotive Works 1854-1873.
  • Baker, William C. (1828-1901) - Car heater patentee.
  • Baldwin, L. W. - CEO of Missouri Pacific Lines. (Palmer 1942)
  • Baldwin, Matthias W. (1795-1866) - Locomotive designer, assembled the first locomotive for Newcastle & Frenchtown Railroad in 1832, founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works.
  • Baldwin, William H., Jr. (1863-1905) - Long Island Rail Road 1896-1905.
  • Ball, Webb C. (1847-1922) - Chief Time Inspector for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway beginning in 1891; he was the first person in North America to create reliable inspection systems for railroad chronometers.
  • Bancroft, William Amos (born 1855) - Boston Elevated Railway 1899-__.
  • Bandeen, Robert (born 1930) - Canadian National Railway 1974-1982.
  • Banerjee, Mamata (born 1955) - Minister of Railways for India 2009-present.
  • Banfield, Edward - Gran Ferrocarril Sur.

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

November 4, 2011 - 06:44 — Slambo
  • Idrac, Anne-Marie (born 1951) - President of RATP 2002-2006, president of SNCF 2006-present.
  • Ivatt, Henry Alfred (1851-1923) - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great Northern Railway (UK) 1896-1911.
  • Ivatt, Henry George (1886-1976) - Son of Henry A. Ivatt, was commonly known as George Ivatt; Chief Mechanical Engineer for London Midland & Scottish Railway 1946-1947.

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

October 28, 2011 - 09:36 — Slambo
  • Hackworth, Timothy (1786-1850) - Pioneering English steam locomotive designer and builder.
  • Hall-Jones, William  (1851-1936) - New Zealand Minister of Railways 1906-1908.
  • Hallidie, Andrew Smith (1836-1900) - Developed the first practical cable car system for San Francisco, California.
  • Hamberger, Edward R. - President of the Association of American Railroads.
  • Hanna, David Blyth (1858-1938) - First president of Canadian National Railway.
  • Hannaford, Jule Murat (1850-1934) - President of Northern Pacific Railway 1913-1920.
  • Harbeson, John (1888-1986) - Architect and industrial designer who helped with the design of the Pioneer Zephyr in 1934 and Denver Zephyr in 1936.
  • Harnden, William F. (1812-1845) - Began career as a ticket salesman for the Boston & Providence Railroad, became the first person to send an express shipment by rail in 1839 and founded Harnden & Company as a result of this experience.
  • Harris, Robert (born 1830) - President of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad 1876-1878; president of Northern Pacific Railway 1884-1888.
  • Harrison, Fairfax (1869-1938) - Began railway career as a lawyer with the Southern Railway (U.S.) in 1896; promoted to vice president in 1906; president of Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway; president of Southern Railway 1913-1937.
  • Harrison, George M. - President of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks.
  • Harrison, Karen (born 1960) - First female train driver appointed in the United Kingdom.

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

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