Three iconic railroaders who spent much of their careers at Norfolk Southern or one of its predecessor companies—David Goode, the late Jim McClellan and the late Bill Brosnan—have been inducted into the
The National Railroad Hall of Fame honored three rail industry icons in an induction ceremony on Nov. 19 at Union Station Kansas City: Downing B. Jenks, Arthur E. Stilwell and Paul M.
The National Railroad Hall of Fame has received a $200,000 capital campaign gift from Henry I. Posner, III for the organization’s visitor attraction in Galesburg. Posner, Chairman of Railroad Development Corporation, chairs
A rail industry veteran who has chosen to remain anonymous has gifted $400,000 to the National Railroad Hall of Fame (NRRHOF) capital campaign. “This generous donation from a leader who capped his
Paul Tellier, who as head of Canadian National led the railway’s privatization, transforming it from a Crown Corporation to now one of six North American publicly traded Class I carriers,* was recently
William E. (Bill) Greenwood, a former Burlington Northern executive most associated with the railroad industry leadership he provided for the intermodal business, died on Sept. 22, 2023. He was 85.
Three iconic rail industry veterans—Darius W. Gaskins, Jr., Robert D. Krebs and James A. Hagen—were inducted into the National Railroad Hall of Fame (NRRHF) in a Nov. 8 ceremony at BNSF Railway headquarters in Fort Worth, Tex. The organization inducts rail industry people annually based on its Rail Industry Advisory Group recommendations.
The National Railroad Hall of Fame has inducted Edward Gowen Budd, founder of the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia in 1912. Bombardier Transportation, which acquired the Budd Co.’s passenger railcar designs and related assets of its mass transit equipment division in 1987, accepted the award on Edward Budd’s behalf during an Oct. 27, 2015 ceremony at St. Louis Union Station.
