Important people in rail transport

Asa Philip Randolph ( April 15 1889 – May 16 1979) was a socialist in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. He was born in Crescent City, Florida. His father was a minister of the A.M.E. Church who moved the family to Jacksonville, Florida in 1891. In 1911, Randolph moved to New York City's Harlem in hope of becoming an actor. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. Philip Randolph"

Albert Bowman Rogers ( 28 May 1829 – 4 May 1889), commonly known as Major A.B. Rogers, was an American surveyor now best remembered for his discovery of the Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "A.B. Rogers"

Aaron Augustus Sargent ( September 28, 1827– August 14, 1887) was an American journalist, lawyer and politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aaron Augustus Sargent"

Albert Hunt was the inventor of the wigwag, a grade crossing signal used in transportation. Hunt was a mechanical engineer from Southern California. He invented the wigwag in 1909 out of the necessity for a safer railroad grade crossing. Hunt was associated with the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar railroad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Hunt"

Alfred A. Hart was a 19th century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s. Hart sold his negatives to Carleton Watkins, who continued to publish the CPRR stereoviews in the 1870s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred A. Hart"

Alonzo Clark Mather ( 1848 – 1941) was founder and president of the Mather Stock Car Company, a firm that built and leased railroad freight cars, especially stock cars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alonzo C. Mather"

Alvin Adams ( June 16 1804 – September 2 1877) was the founder of Adams and Company, a forerunner to Adams Express, one of the first companies to act as a carrier for express shipments by rail in the United States. Adams and Company provided shippers with a complete shipping solution, picking up goods at the shipper's location, carrying them to the railroad terminal, and then delivering them from the distant railroad terminal to the recipient's door. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alvin Adams"

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Amasa Stone ( 1818- 1883) was an American industrialist who built railroads and invested in mills in Ohio. He was a major benefactor of Western Reserve College, which became part of Case Western Reserve University in 1967. Amasa Stone Chapel was built after his death in his memory. The building named after his son, Adelbert Hall, is still the home of the university administration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amasa Stone"

Jules T. Anatole Mallet ( 23 May 1837 - 10 October 1919) was a Swiss mechanical engineer. He invented the Mallet locomotive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatole Mallet"

Aretas Blood ( 1816– 1897) played an important role in the manufacture of early American railroad steam locomotives. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aretas Blood"

Asa Whitney ( 1797 - August 1872) was one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway. It was as early as in the 1830 that Whitney first became bewitched with railroads and foresaw their future role in business and transport. He first stopped on a buying trip, he was a Merchant Trader, to ride the newly formed Liverpool and Manchester Railway. He made one of the first formal proposals to the US Government on building a Transcontinental Railroad. For years he was rejected and continued to write revised memorials and take expeditions through what was then known as Indian Territory to support his cause. After more than ten years of trying he at last gave up. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asa Whitney"

Norris Ray ("Buck") Crump, C.C., M.E., D.Eng., D.Sc., LL.D., D.C.L., ( July 30, 1904 – December 26, 1989) was a Canadian businessman and President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...more on Wikipedia about "Buck Crump"

John Luther "Casey" Jones ( 1864- 1900) was a railroad engineer who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). In 1900 he was killed when his locomotive collided with another train. His climactic death made him a folksong hero beginning with a song written by Wallace Sanders who was an engine wiper for the IC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casey Jones"

Charles Robert Bowen-Cooke ( 11 January 1859 — 1920) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Bowen-Cooke"

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton ( September 19 1737– November 14 1832) was a lawyer and politician from Maryland who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later a United States Senator. He was the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Carroll of Carrollton"

Charles Edward Fairburn ( 5 September 1887 — 12 October 1945) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Fairburn"

Charles Melville Hays, sometimes rendered Hayes, ( May 16, 1856 – April 15, 1912) was a railway official most famous for his role as president of the Grand Trunk Railway System. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Melville Hays"

Benoit Claudius Crozet ( December 31 1789- January 29, 1864) was an educator and civil engineer. He was born in France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claudius Crozet"

Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels ( July 9, 1828- December 26, 1908), (his last name has also been spelled officially as Spreckles), was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands' history. He also involved himself several California enterprises. In 1880, he purchased the Pacific Commercial Advertiser and became a publisher. Today, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser is known as the Honolulu Advertiser, one of the largest newspapers in circulation in the United States. Spreckels's conservative pro-monarchy slants caused him to fall from favor by his fellow businessmen and eventually sold the newspaper. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claus Spreckels"

David Blyth Hanna ( December 20 1858 – December 1 1938, Toronto, Ontario) was a railway executive with the Canadian Northern Railway and the Canadian National Railways. Born in Thornliebank, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1882 where he was employed by the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1896 he joined William Mackenzie and Donald Mann who organized the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) in Western Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Blyth Hanna"

Sir Donald Mann ( March 23, 1853 - November 10, 1934) was a Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald Mann"

Edward Banfield was the late 19th Century British executive of Argentine railroad company Gran Ferrocarril Sur. The village of Banfield in the Buenos Aires Province was named after him. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Banfield"

Edward Gowen Budd ( 1870– 1946) was an American inventor and businessman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward G. Budd"

Edward Pease ( 31 May 1767 - 31 July 1858) was an English railway owner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Pease"

Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty ( October 16, 1877 – March 23, 1943) was a Canadian lawyer, University chancellor and businessman. He was President of the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1918 to 1943, Chancellor of Queen's University from 1919 to 1923, and Chancellor of McGill University from 1920 to 1943. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Wentworth Beatty"

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