List of railroad executives

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

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Oleg Belozyorov
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Ralph Budd

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Alexander Cassatt
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W. Graham Claytor Jr.
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Erastus Corning

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Chauncey M. Depew

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Stuyvesant Fish

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James Fisk

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John W. Garrett
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Shimpei Gotō
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Jay Gould

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E. H. Harriman
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Cyrus K. Holliday
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Collis P. Huntington
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Anne-Marie Idrac

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K

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Leonor Loree

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Hartmut Mehdorn
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Anson Morrill

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William B. Ogden
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Asa Packer

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Guillaume Pepy
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John Jay Phelps

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Samuel Rea

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Thomas A.Scott
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John W. Snow
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Leland Stanford

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J. Edgar Thomson

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Daniel Willard

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Vladimir Yakunin

See also

Footnotes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sunnyside Yard</span> Rail yard in Queens, New York

Sunnyside Yard is a large coach yard, a railroad yard for passenger cars in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The yard is owned by Amtrak and is also used by New Jersey Transit. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) completed construction of the yard in 1910; it was originally the largest coach yard in the world, occupying 192 acres (0.78 km2).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">North River Tunnels</span> Rail tunnels in New York and New Jersey

The North River Tunnels are a pair of rail tunnels that carry Amtrak and New Jersey Transit passenger lines under the Hudson River between Weehawken, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Built between 1904 and 1908 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to allow its trains to reach Manhattan, they opened for service in late 1910.

The Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati is a railroad museum in Covington, Kentucky.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buffalo Line</span>

The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Rockville, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line. Its north end is at Seneca Yard in Buffalo, with no direct access to the Lake Erie district, and its south end is at the Pittsburgh Line at Rockville. The line is operated by the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad between Buffalo and Machias, New York, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad between Machias and Driftwood, Pennsylvania, and the Norfolk Southern Railway between Driftwood and Rockville.

The Sunbury Line, formerly known as Sunbury Subdivision, is a rail line owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Railway which in turn is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The line travels from Sunbury, Pennsylvania, to Binghamton, New York, connecting with Norfolk Southern's Southern Tier Line at Binghamton and Norfolk Southern's Buffalo Line at Sunbury.

The South Side Railroad of Long Island was a railroad company in the U.S. state of New York. Chartered in 1860 and first opened in 1867 as a competitor to the Long Island Rail Road, it was reorganized in 1874 as the Southern Railroad of Long Island and leased in 1876 to the LIRR. After a reorganization as the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad in 1879 it was merged in 1889.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Garces Intermodal Transportation Facility</span> Railway station in Needles, California

El Garces Intermodal Transportation Facility is an Amtrak intercity rail station and bus depot in downtown Needles, California. The structure was originally built in 1908 as El Garces, a Harvey House and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) station. It is named for Francisco Garcés, a Spanish missionary who surveyed the area in the 1770s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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