This is the list of railroaders as noted in White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History. 154: 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. JSTOR 43523785. OCLC 1785797.. I am using this as a way to quickly find which of these people have articles and which do not. You will note that the list is presented here in a slightly different format than the original, as the original had no way of even knowing Wikipedia existed.
Written edit
- Alvin Adams (1804-1877) - Adams Express
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915) - Union Pacific Railroad
- William W. Atterbury (1866-1935) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Matthew Baird (1817-1877) - locomotive builder
- Matthias W. Baldwin (1795-1866) - Baldwin Locomotive Works
- John W. Barriger III (1899-1976) - Monon; Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
- Lucius M. Beebe (1902-1966) - journalist, historian
- Benjamin F. Biaggini (1916-2005) - Southern Pacific
- Wendel Bollman (1814-1884) - iron bridge designer
- James (Diamond Jim) Brady (1856-1917) - railway supply salesman
- Horatio G. Brooks (1828-1887) - Brooks Locomotive Works
- Gridley Bryant (1789-1867) - Granite Railroad
- Edward G. Budd (1870-1946) - Budd Company
- Ralph Budd (1879-1962) - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Alexander J. Cassatt (1839-1906) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Octave Chanute (1832-1910) - rail designer
- W. Graham Claytor, Jr. (1914-1994) - Southern Railway; Amtrak
- Zerah Colburn (1832-1870) - locomotive designer and railroad author
- Jay Cooke (1821-1905) - Northern Pacific Railroad
- Erastus Corning (1794-1892) - New York Central
- Charles Crocker (1822-1888) - Central Pacific
- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) - railway labor leader
- Chauncey M. Depew (1834-1928) - New York Central
- Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916) - railroad construction
- Daniel Drew (1797-1879) - Erie Railroad
- Theodore N. Ely (1846-1915) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Henry Farnam (1803-1883) - Rock Island
- Stuyvesant Fish (1851-1923) - Illinois Central Railroad
- James Fisk (1834-1872) - Erie Railroad
- Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913) - Florida East Coast
- John Murray Forbes (1813-1898) - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Matthias N. Forney (1835-1908) - locomotive designer
- John W. Garrett (1820-1884) - Baltimore and Ohio
- George J. Gould (1864-1923) - Rio Grande; Western Pacific
- Jay Gould (1836-1892) - Erie Railroad; Missouri Pacific; Texas and Pacific
- Franklin B. Gowen (1836-1889) - Reading Railroad
- Carl R. Gray (1867-1939) - Union Pacific
- William F. Harnden (1812-1845) - Harnden and Company railway express
- Edward H. Harriman (1848-1909) - Union Pacific; Southern Pacific
- Fred Harvey (1835-1901) - Harvey House restaurants
- Herman Haupt (1817-1905) - Hoosac Tunnel; U.S. Military Railroads; Pennsylvania Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad
- Benjamin W. Heineman (1914- ) - Chicago and North Western
- James J. Hill (1838-1916) - Great Northern Railway; Spokane, Portland and Seattle
- Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900) - Central Pacific; Southern Pacific
- Melville E. Ingalls (1842-1914) - Big Four — note that the article lists the name as Melvin W. Ingalls with the same birth/death years.
- Eli H. Janney (1831-1912) - coupler designer
- Edward Turner Jeffery (1943-1927) Illinois Central; Denver and Rio Grande Western; Western Pacific
- John B. Jervis (1795-1885) - locomotive designer
- Hugh J. Jewett (1817-1898) - Erie Railroad
- James L. (Casey) Jones (1864-1900) - engineer
- Theodore Judah (1826-1863) - transcontinental railroad visionary
- James P. Kirkwood (1807-1877) - railroad construction
- Julius Kruttschnitt (July 30, 1854, to June 15, 1925) - Southern Pacific Company; Union Pacific Railroad
- Leonor F. Loree (1858-1940) - Delaware and Hudson; Kansas City Southern
- William Mason (1808-1883) - locomotive builder
- William G. McAdoo (1863-1941) - US Railroad Administration
- James Millholland (1812-1875) - locomotive designer
- Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887) - Milwaukee Road
- David H. Moffat (1839-1911) - Rio Grande
- J. P. Morgan (1837-1913) - US Steel
- William B. Ogden (1805-1877) - Chicago and North Western
- Asa Packer (1805-1879) - Lehigh Valley
- Charles Elliott Perkins (1840-1907) - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Henry B. Plant (1819-1899) - Plant System
- H. K. Porter (1840-1921) - H. K. Porter, Inc. (locomotives)
- George M. Pullman (1831-1897) - Pullman Company
- A. Phillip Randolph (1889-1979) - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Edward P. Ripley (1845-1920) - Santa Fe
- William Z. Ripley (1867-1941) - economist
- Thomas Rogers (1792-1856) - Rogers Locomotive Works
- Thomas A. Scott (1823-1881) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Milton H. Smith (1836-1921) - Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- Samuel Spencer (1847-1906) - Southern Railway
- Elmer Sperry (1860-1930) - rail testing
- Amasa Stone (1818-1883) - railroad construction, bridges
- William B. Strong (1837-1914) - Santa Fe
- J. Edgar Thomson (1808-1874) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Mantis J. Van Sweringen (1881-1935) - Nickel Plate Road
- Oris P. Van Sweringen (1879-1936) - Nickel Plate Road
- Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) - New York Central
- William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885) - New York Central
- Henry Villard (1835-1900) - Northern Pacific Railroad
- Webster Wagner (1817-1882) - sleeping car operator
- George Westinghouse (1846-1914) - Westinghouse Air Brake Company
- Frederick Methvan Whyte (1865-1941) - Whyte notation
- Daniel Willard (1861-1942) - Baltimore and Ohio
- Ross Winans (1796-1877) - locomotive builder
- Robert R. Young (1897-1958) - Chesapeake and Ohio
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- William F. Allen (1846-1915) - Standard Time
- George B. Armstrong (1822-1871) - railway mail service
- William C. Baker (1828-1901) - car heater patentee
- Eliam E. Barney (1807-1880) - car builder
- William P. Bixby (1857-1931) - American Car and Foundry
- Henry R. Campbell (1807-1879) - patented the 4-4-0
- Martin W. Clement (1881-1966) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Lorenzo S. Coffin (1823-1915) - railway safety
- Francis J. Cole (1856-1923) - locomotive designer
- Thomas M. Cooley (1824-1898) - Interstate Commerce Commission
- Sidney Dillon (1812-1892) - Union Pacific
- Richard Dilworth (1885-1968) - diesel locomotive designer
- Plimmon H. Dudley (1843-1924) - metallurgist
- T. C. Durant (1820-1885) - Union Pacific Railroad
- Joseph B. Eastman (1852-1944) - Interstate Commerce Commission
- Wilson Eddy (1813-1898) - locomotive designer
- Joseph B. Ennis (1879-1955) - locomotive designer
- Albert Fink (1827-1897) - iron bridge designer
- John Fritz (1822-1913) - rail technician
- George Gibbs (1861-1940) - steel passenger cars
- W. F. M. Goss (1859-1928) - railway engineering
- Thomas S. Hall (1827-1880) - electric signals
- John Hansen (1873-1929) - car builder
- Joseph Harrison, Jr. (1810-1874) - locomotive designer
- Holmes Hinkley (1793-1866) - locomotive builder
- William Howe (1803-1852) - Howe truss bridges
- Albert Keep (1826-1907) - Chicago and Northwestern
- Paul W. Kiefer (1888- ) - locomotive designer
- Marshall M. Kirkman (1842-1921) - author, railroad official
- Jonathan Knight (1787-1858) - railroad construction
- James F. D. Lanier (1800-1881) - financier
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II (1806-1878) - Baltimore and Ohio
- Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) - bridge builder
- Jacob H. Linville (1825-1906) - bridge designer
- Walter McQueen (1817-1893) - locomotive builder
- John E. Muhlfeld (1872-1941) - locomotive designer
- Richard Norris (1807-1874) - locomotive builder
- Karl F. Nystrom (1881-1961) - car designer
- William J. Palmer (1836-1909) - Rio Grande
- Alfred E. Perlman (1902-1983) - Rio Grande; New York Central; Western Pacific
- Henry V. Poor (1812-1905) - Poor's Manuals
- Samuel Rea (1855-1897) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- George B. Roberts (1833-1897) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- William Robinson (1840-1921) - electric signals
- Donald J. Russell (1900-1985) - Southern Pacific
- Angus Sinclair (1841-1919) - historian, publisher
- Samuel Sloan (1817-1907) - Lackawanna
- Alfred H. Smith (1863-1924) - New York Central
- Charles S. Smith (1836-1886) - bridge builder
- James M. Symes (1897- ) - Pennsylvania Railroad
- Frederick D. Underwood (1852-1942) - Erie Railroad
- Samuel Vauclain (1856-1940) - locomotive builder
- Axel S. Vogt (1849-1921) - locomotive designer
- Ashbel Welch (1809-1882) - rail designer, signals
- George Washington Whistler (1800-1849) - railroad construction
- Asa Whitney (1791-1874) - car wheel designer (is this the same person as Asa Whitney, the transcontinental railway advocate?)
- William E. Woodward (1873-1942) - locomotive designer
- John E. Wootten (1822-1898) - locomotive designer, Wootten firebox
- Benjamin F. Yoakum (1859-1929) - St. Louis-San Francisco