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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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B

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Oleg Belozyorov
Ralph Budd

C

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Alexander Cassatt
W. Graham Claytor Jr.
Erastus Corning

D

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Chauncey M. Depew

E

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Stuyvesant Fish

F

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James Fisk

G

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John W. Garrett
Shimpei Gotō
Jay Gould

H

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

I

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J

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K

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L

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Leonor Loree

M

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Hartmut Mehdorn
Anson Morrill

N

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O

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William B. Ogden
Asa Packer

P

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Guillaume Pepy
John Jay Phelps

Q

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R

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Samuel Rea

S

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Thomas A.Scott
John W. Snow
Leland Stanford

T

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J. Edgar Thomson

U

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V

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

W

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Daniel Willard

Y

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Vladimir Yakunin

See also

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Footnotes

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  • "Old Mack is back". Trains Magazine. 57 (2): 90. February 1997.
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