Railroader of the Year

Railroader of the Year is an award presented in the North American rail industry since 1964 .

The award was first given in 1964 by Modern Railroads magazine as “Man of the Year”. With the takeover of Modern Railroads by Railway Age in 1991, the awarding of the award was also taken over. The award ceremony takes place in early March of the following year at the Chicago Union League Club .

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No.	year	Surname	organization
1	1964	D. William Brosnan	Southern Railway
2	1965	Stuart T. Saunders	Pennsylvania Railroad
3	1966	Stuart T. Saunders	Pennsylvania Railroad
4th	1967	Louis W. Menk	Northern Pacific Railway
5	1968	William B. Johnson	Illinois Central Railroad
6th	1969	John W. Barriger III	Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
7th	1970	John Shedd Reed	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
8th	1971	Jervis Langdon Jr.	Penn Central Transportation
9	1972	Charles Luna	United Transportation Union
10	1973	James W. Germany	Southern Pacific Transportation
11	1974	L. Stanley Crane	Southern Railway
12	1975	Frank E. Barnett	Union Pacific Railroad
13	1976	William J. Harris Jr.	Association of American Railroads
14th	1977	Edward G. Jordan	Conrail
15th	1978	Robert M. Brown	Union Pacific Railroad
16	1979	Theodore C. Lutz	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
17th	1980	John G. German	Missouri Pacific Railroad
18th	1981	Lawrence Cena	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
19th	1982	A. Paul Funkhouser	Family Lines Rail System
20th	1983	L. Stanley Crane	Conrail
21st	1984	Hays T. Watkins	CSX Corporation
22nd	1985	John L. Cann	Canadian National Railway
23	1986	Raymond C. Burton, Jr.	Trailer Train Corporation
24	1987	Willis B. Kyle	Kyle Railways
25th	1988	Darius W. Gaskins Jr.	Burlington Northern Railroad
26th	1989	W. Graham Claytor	Amtrak
27	1990	Arnold B. McKinnon	Norfolk Southern
28	1991	Michael H. Walsh	Union Pacific Railroad
29	1992	William H. Dempsey	Association of American Railroads
30th	1993	Raymond C. Burton Jr.	TTX Corporation
31	1994	LS Jacobson	Copper Basin Railway
32	1995	Edward L. Moyers	Southern Pacific Rail Corporation
33	1996	Robert D. Krebs Gerald Grinstein	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Burlington Northern Railroad
34	1997	Paul M. Tellier	Canadian National Railway
35	1998	David R. Goode	Norfolk Southern
36	1999	Edward Burkhardt	Wisconsin Central Transportation
37	2000	The Railroad Worker as "Railroader of the Century"
38	2001	Michael R. Haverty	Kansas City Southern
39	2002	E. Hunter Harrison	Illinois Central Railroad Canadian National Railway
40	2003	Richard K. Davidson	Union Pacific Railroad
41	2004	Robert J. Ritchie	Canadian Pacific Railway
42	2005	David R. Goode	Norfolk Southern
43	2006	Richard F. Timmons	American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
44	2007	William E. Wimmer	Union Pacific Railroad
45	2008	Steve Tobias	Norfolk Southern
46	2009	Michael J. Ward	CSX Transportation
47	2010	Matthew K. Rose	Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Corporation
48	2011	Charles W. Moorman	Norfolk Southern
49	2012	David L. Starling	Kansas City Southern
50	2013	James R. Young	Union Pacific Railroad
51	2014	Joseph H. Boardman	Amtrak
52	2015	E. Hunter Harrison	Canadian Pacific Railway
53	2016	Carl R. Ice	BNSF Railway
54	2017	Thomas F. Prendergast	Metropolitan Transportation Authority
55	2018	John C. Hellmann	Genesee and Wyoming
56	2019	Jean-Jacques Ruest	Canadian National Railway
57	2020	Patrick J. Ottensmeyer	Kansas City Southern