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List of people associated with rail transport

Last updated January 18, 2026

Famous railroaders

Casey Jones – Illinois Central engineer whose death in a 1900 train wreck was made famous in song and legend
Albert Lacombe – made a railroad through Blackfoot territory
Zhan Tianyou – distinguished Chinese railroad engineer, often called the "Father of China's railroad"

Railroad tycoons and businessmen

Erastus Corning – formed the nucleus of what would become the great New York Central Railroad
Charles Crocker – one of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad
Eugene V. Debs – labor organizer, founding member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and participant in the infamous Pullman Strike
Daniel Drew – robber baron involved in the stock manipulation of the Erie Railroad with Fisk and Gould
James Fisk – robber baron involved in the stock manipulation of the Erie Railroad with Gould and Drew
Jay Gould – robber baron involved in the stock manipulation of the Erie Railroad with Fisk and Drew
Edward H. Harriman – president of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, and directed the unification of both railroads
James J. Hill – founder of the Great Northern Railway, builder of first transcontinental railroad without federal subsidies or land grants
Cyrus K. Holliday – founder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Mark Hopkins – one of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad
Collis P. Huntington – one of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, founder of Huntington, West Virginia while helping construct the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
George Pullman – inventor of the Pullman sleeper (a luxury sleeping car) and founder of the Pullman Company
Leland Stanford – one of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, governor of California, and founder of Stanford University
Arthur Stilwell – founder of the Kansas City Southern Railway, as well as several cities, among them Port Arthur, Texas, which is named after Stilwell
Cornelius Vanderbilt – after spending the first 70 years of his life building a successful ferry business, controlled and expanded the New York Central Railroad into an empire and ordered construction of the first Grand Central Terminal

Inventors and innovators

Grenville M. Dodge – chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad and helped construct the first American transcontinental railroad.
Fred Harvey – revolutionized passenger train onboard services, making travel by train more comfortable.
Theodore Judah – chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad and passionate supporter of the first American transcontinental railroad
Otto Kuhler – industrial designer
Raymond Loewy – industrial designer
Anatole Mallet – inventor of the articulated locomotive, commonly called the Mallet locomotive
Charles Minot – general superintendent of the Erie Railroad, first to use the telegraph to dispatch trains in 1851
George Stephenson – "father of British steam railways", inventor of the Rocket steam locomotive (the first "modern" locomotive), and pioneer of the 4 ft 8 ½ inch rail gauge
Richard Trevithick – credited with the 1804 invention of the steam locomotive
Wilhelm von Pressel – designer of the Baghdad Railway
George Westinghouse – inventor of the air brake

Others

Richard Beeching – household name as chairman of British Rail (1961-1964) famous for Beeching cuts
Jesse James – American outlaw, portraying a Robin Hood of sorts, standing up against railroad corporations in defense of the small farmers
Francis Bourgeois - A British Trainspotter

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