Who's Who in railroad history: Sources and bibliography

Books

• Biennial Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Co. 1897.
• The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. 1887.
• Cresseveur, John, transcriber (2014, original text 1914), History of Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Company.
• Greene, B. M., ed., (1912), Who's Who and Why: 1919-20, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal: International Press Ltd.
• Illinois Public Utilities Commission (1915), Statistical Report, Part III: Officers and Directors of Public Utilities, Springfield, Illinois.
• The Official Railway List. Chicago: Railway Purchasing Agent Company. 1888. Note: I have found many instances where names listed in this publication had the incorrect middle initial when compared to other reference materials of the era.
• The Pocket List of Railroad Officials. New York: The Official Railway Equipment Register Company. 2nd quarter 1907, Number 50.
• Poor's Directory of Railway Officials. New York and London: Poor's Railroad Manual Company. 1887. (this was the second annual edition of this work)
• Poor's Manual of Railroads. New York, NY: Poor's Manual Company. 1917.
• Serpico, Philip C. (1988), Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications.
• White, John H., Jr (1973) American Single Locomotives and the "Pioneer". Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, number 25.

Newspapers, journals and magazines

• "Arrivals and Departures: Iowa Saga Incomplete," Trains (June 1991). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. p 18.
• "Arrivals and Departures: Obituaries," Trains (June 1991). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. p 18.
• "Changes in Rock Island," New York Times (November 16, 1906)
• "The Death of Elisha Kent Kane," McKean County Democrat (February 21, 1935). Transcribed for the Planet Smethport Project; retrieved February 24, 2014.
• "Death List of a Day," New York Times (June 20, 1905)
• Jenkins, Dale, Illinois Traction Society (Spring 2011). "The People of the Illinois Terminal," The Flyer. Kansas City, MO: White River Productions. pp 3-9.
• "John Insley Blair Dead," New York Times (December 3, 1899)
• "Juluis Howard Pratt dead: Named Montclair and built New York & Greenwood Lake Railroad," New York Times (October 15, 1909).
• "List of Principal Railroad Presidents Affected by Director General's Order," New York Times (May 22, 1918).
• "Menk happy with BN's 'first hundred days'," Railway Age (July 13, 1970).  New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. p 11.
• Morgan, David P. (May 1969). "Containers by passenger train". Modern Railways vol XXV (248): pp 248-9.
• "Obituary," Railway Age (August 9, 1976). p 43.
• Penn Central Post (1968-1976). Philadelphia, PA: Penn Central Railroad. (complete archive online)
• "People in the News," Railway Age (July 13, 1970). New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. pp 55-67.
• Phillips, Don (June 1991). "Riding with the presidents: An Amtrak perspective." Trains.  Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. pp 27-28.
• Railroad Age Gazette vol XLV. 2nd half 1908.
• The Railroad Men vol. XVII (4). January 1904.
• Railway World vol 53. 2nd half 1909.
• "Robert B. Claytor, 71, A Railroad Executive," New York Times (April 11, 1993)
• Scull, Theodore W. (June 1991). "'I foresee even faster improvement'; An interview with Amtrak President W. Graham Claytor Jr." Trains.  Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing.  pp 24-25.
• "Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision," New York Times (September 3, 1913).
• "Starts Anew at 49," New York Times (March 13, 1912).
• Thiessen, Mark, Associated Press (August 2, 2013). "Alaska Railroad CEO to step down." Miami Herald. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
• "Vice President Byrnes," Boot and Shoe Recorder (February 20, 1907); Vol. L, issue 21.  Boston, MA: Boot and Shoe Recorder Publishing Co. p. 108A.
• "W. H. Newman President of Two Railroads," New York Times (June 22, 1901).
• "Whitman takes over as Katy president," Railway Age (July 13, 1970).  New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. p 12.

Other sources

• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (August 14, 2009). Former Canadian Vice President J.W. "Wes" Lyster, 1923-2009. Retrieved September 5, 2009.
• Congressional Record - Senate (September 19, 1986), p 24914. Retreived February 21, 2014
• Lloyd, James T. (1859). Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific. Scan of the original in the collection of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, available through the Library of Congress website, retreived February 11, 2014.
• Norfolk Southern Corporation (May 10, 2013). Norfolk Southern Names Six to Senior Management Positions. (Press release). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
• Norfolk Southern Corporation (January 21, 2014). Amy E. Miles and James A. Squires Elected to Norfolk Southern Board. (Press release). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
• Palmer, Alfred T., photographer (December 18, 1942). Group photo of railway and rail labor management at the Railway Labor Management Conference in Washington, DC. Available through the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division website.
• University of Toronto/Université Laval (2003-2013). Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
• Various authors. A number of Wikipedia articles about railroad companies and people involved in rail transport worldwide.