The Rip Track

Railway and rail labor management after meeting with President Roosevelt on September 20, 1938. Left-to-right are: Ernest E. Norris, David B. Robertson, George M. Harrison, Carl B. Gray, Martin W. Clement, and B. M. Jewell.

Every railroad company that ever existed shares one thing in common: railroaders. Whether they are the finest railroad company executives ever or ruthless robber barons, railroads can't exist without people. This section of The Rip Track will include articles about the famous and sometimes not-so-famous railroaders behind the prototypes that we model.

Photo credits

The photograph of railway and labor management included on this page is cropped from a scan of the original photograph available as part of the Harris & Ewing Collection on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division website.  The rights and reproductions page for this collection (retrieved July 16, 2009) asserts that the copyright has expired on the photographs in the collection therefore that publication is expressly permitted.