Who's Who list by name, surname beginning with D

• Daley, A. F. - President of Dublin & Southwestern Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 309)
• Dana, N. J. T. - President and general manager of Montana Union Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 127)
• Danforth, F. L. - President of Buffalo Creek Railroad. (Poor's 1887, p 21; Official List 1888, p 21)
• Daniels, Winthrop More (1867-1944) - Commissioner for the Interstate Commerce Commission 1913-1923.
• Dargan, William (1799-1867) - Irish engineer known as the "father of Irish railways."  Built the first railway in Ireland in 1833, connecting Dublin to Kingstown.
• Darling, J. A. - Chairman of Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad. (Congressional Record 1986, p 24914)
• Darling, William Lafayette (1856-1938) - Construction engineer for Great Northern Railway who oversaw construction of several branches in Idaho and Montana.
• Darlow, E. R. - President of Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway. (NY Times, May 22, 1918; Poor's 1917, p 168)
• Darrah, A. C. - President of St. Clairsville & Northern Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 167)
• Darre-Jenssen, Hans Jørgen (1864-1950) - Norwegian civil engineer; chief engineer for the reconstruction of the Drammen Line from 1909 until its completion in 1922; director for Norwegian State Railways.
• Dautry, Raoul (1880-1951) - Oversaw reconstruction of the northern French rail network after World War I; director of Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'État 1928-1937.
• Davey, John R. - President of Cincinnati Northwestern Railroad. (Poor's 1887, p 45; Official List 1888, p 55)
• Davidson, A. J. - Began career as telegrapher on St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad. President of Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway. President of Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad __-1906 [succeeded by H. I. Miller]. President of Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad __-1906 [succeeded by H. I. Miller]. President of Birmingham Belt Railroad. President of Colorado Southern, New Orleans & Pacific Railroad. President of St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad 1904-1909. President of Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad 1908-__ [preceded by R. C. Duff]. Restarted career after a mental breakdown, gaining employment in the executive office of Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway in 1912. (New York Times, November 16, 1906; Pocket List 1907, pp 219 and 293; Railroad Age Gazette, July 17, 1908, p 552; Railway World, November 19, 1909, pp 961-962; New York Times, March 13, 1912)
• Davidson, B. R. - Presient of Pacific & Great Eastern Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 149)
• Davidson, P. M. - President of Vincennes, Centralia & St. Louis Transit Company. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1319)
• Davidson, Richard K. - CEO of Union Pacific Railroad 1997-__ [preceded by Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.]; Railway Age's Railroader of the Year for 2003 [preceded by E. Hunter Harrison].
• Davis, Arthur V. - President of Alton & Southern Railroad. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1196)
• Davis, H. C. - President of Lac La Belle & Calumet Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 109)
• Davis, H. G. - President of Coal & Coke Railway Company. (Pocket List 1907, p 291)
• Davis, Henry G. - President of West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 197)
• Davis, Samuel - General superintendent of Mount Hope Mineral Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 129)
• Davis, Z. W. - President of Ashland & Western Railway. (Pocket List 1907, p 193)
• Dawson, James - President of Charleston, Westfield, Marshall & Terre Haute Interurban Railway. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1302)
• Dayton, Henry F. - President of Quincy & Western Illinois Railway. (Illinois PUC, 1915, p 1316)
• Dean, D. Richmond - President of Pullman Railroad. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1235)
• Dean, William (1840-1905) - Chief mechanical engineer of Great Western Railway 1877-1902.
• Debevoise, George W. - President of Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 160)
• deButts, Harry A. (died 1983) - President of Southern Railway (US) 1951-1962 [preceded by Earnest E. Norris; succeeded by D. William Brosnan].
• Decker, E. - Chairman and president of Ahnapee & Western Railway. (Wisconsin Railroad Commission 1897, p 13)
• Deeley, Richard (1855-1944) - Chief mechanical engineer of Midland Railway 1904-1909 [preceded by Samuel W. Johnson; succeeded by Henry Fowler].
• De Forest, H. W. - Chairman of the board for Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad. (Pocket list 1907, p 281)
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  J. D. De Frees
  De Frees, J. D. - President of Peru & Indianapolis Railroad. (Lloyd 1859)
• del Castillo, F. A. - General manager of Desague del Valle de Mexico Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 307)
• Delamater, B. L. - President of Chicago & Lake Superior Railway. (Pocket List 1907, p 255)
• Delamater, G. W. - President of Meadville & Linesville Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 118)
• Delano, Frederic A. (born 1863) - Graduated from Harvard Univesrity and began railroad career in 1885 as a machinist apprentice with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, working at the company shops in Aurora, Illinois. Promoted to head the Bureau of Steel Rail Inspection in 1887. Assistant to second vice president of CB&Q 1889-1890. Superintendent of CB&Q Chicago freight terminals 1890-1899. Superintendnet of motive power for CB&Q 1899-1901. General manager of CB&Q 1901-__ [preceded by William C. Brown]. (New York Times, June 22, 1901)
• Delatour, H. L. - Trustee with David E. Smucker for the Long Island Rail Road 1949-1950 [succeeded by William H. Draper].
• Denney, Charles Eugene (1879-1965) - President of Erie Railroad 1929-1939 [preceded by John Joseph Bernet; succeeded by Robert Eastman Woodruff]; president of Northern Pacific Railway 1939-1950 [preceded by Charles Donnelly; succeeded by Robert Stetson Macfarlane].
• Depew, Chauncey M. (1834-1928) - President of New York Central Railroad 1885-1898 [succeeded by Samuel R. Callaway]; chairman of the board for New York Central Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 137; Poor's 1917, p 86)
• Dermody, James J. - President of Long Island Rail Road 2003-2006 [preceded by Kenneth J. Bauer; succeded by Raymond P. Kenny as acting president].
• Deuger, Adam - President of Lincoln Electric Railway. (Illinois PUC, 1915, p 1266)
• Devine, Gregory S. - President of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; president of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1966-1971 [preceded by Walter Touhy; succeeded by Hays T. Watkins].
• Dewing, William S. - President of Allegan & Lake Shore Railroad. (Poor's 1887, p 1)
• Dewy, D. B. - Receiver for Minnesota & Wisconsin Railway. (Wisconsin Railroad Commission 1897, p 31)
• Dexter, F. Gordon - President of Little Rock Junction Railway; president of Manhattan, Alma & Burlingame Railway. (Poor's 1887, pp 3 and 7)
• Dexter, Julius - President of Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 51)
• Dibble, S. - President of Branchville & Bowman Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 225)
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  Agnew T. Dice in 1929
  Dice, Agnew T. - President of Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. (NY Times, May 22, 1918)
• Dick, S. B. - President of Colorado & Northwestern Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 291)
• Dickenson, E. - President of Idaho Central Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 97)
• Dickinson, J. M. - Reciever and later president of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. (NY Times, May 22, 1918; Illinois PUC 1915, p 1210)
• Dierks, Hans - President of De Queen & Eastern Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 307)
• Diescher, Caroline Endres (1846-1930) - Helped engineer the Monongahela Incline and the Mount Oliver Incline in Pittsburgh.
• Diesel, Rudolf (1858-1913) - Inventor of the diesel engine.
• Dillingham, Charles - Receiver for Houston & Texas Central Railroad [with James Rintoul and Nelson S. Easton]. (Official List 1888, p 95)
• Dillon, Sidney - President of Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad; president of Puget Sound Shore Railroad. (Official List 1888, pp 71 and 163)
• Dilworth, Richard M. (1885-1968) - Chief engineer at General Motors Electro-Motive Division who is credited with developing the diesel-electric locomotive concept in the 1930s.
• Dingee, F. A. - President of Youghiogheny Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 199)
• Divine, J. F. - General superintendent of Atlantic Coast Line. (Poor's 1887, p 7)
• Grenville M. Dodge in 1911
  Dodge, Grenville Mellen (1831-1916) - American Railway Improvement Company of Colorado. International Railway Improvement Company of Colorado. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway. Fort Worth & Denver Railway. President of St. Louis, Des Moines & Northern Railroad. Des Moines Union Railway. Colorado & Texas Construction Company. Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railway. Des Moines & Northern Railway. Wichita Valley Railway. Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway. Chairman of the board for Colorado & Southern Railway. (Official List 1888, p 171; Pocket List 1907, p 291)
• Dole, Elizabeth (born 1936) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation 1983-1987 [preceded by Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.; succeeded by James H. Burnley IV].
• Doocy, Edward - President of Louisiana & Pike County Railroad. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1224)
• Donahue, James M. - President of San Francisco & North Pacific and Sonoma Valley Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 173)
• Donnelly, Charles (1869-1939) - President of Northern Pacific Railway 1920-1939 [preceded by Jule Murat Hannaford; succeeded by Charles Eugene Denney].
• Donohue, Jas. - General superintendent of Des Moines & Kansas City Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 71)
• Doris, Carole R. - Chairman of the board for Metra 2006-present.
• Dorr, Jonathan - President of Nantucket Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 129)
• Dorrington, William E. (1852-1926) - Director for London & North Western Railway.
• Douglas, James - President of El Paso & Southwestern Railroad. (NY Times, May 22, 1918)
• Douglas, John M. - President of Illinois Central Railroad 1865-1871 [preceded by William H. Osborn; succeeded by John Newell] and 1875-1876 [preceded by Wilson G. Hunt; succeeded by William K. Ackerman].
• Dowd, William - President of Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 114)
• Downing, Robert W. - President of Burlington Northern Railroad 1971-1976 [preceded by Louis W. Menk; succeeded by Norman Lorentzsen].
• Downs, Lawrence A. - President of Illinois Central railroad 1926-1938 [preceded by Charles H. Markham; succeeded by John L. Beven].
• Downs, Thomas M. - President of Amtrak 1993-1998 [preceded by W. Graham Claytor, Jr.; succeeded by George Warrington].
• Dowty, Robert R. (1923-2004) - Construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah.
• Drake, F. M. - President of Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 99)
• Drake, J. A. - President of Bennettsville & Cheraw Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 217)
• Draper, William Henry, Jr. (1894-1974) - Trustee for Long Island Rail Road 1950-1951 [preceeded by co-trustees David E. Smucker and H. L. Delatour; scceeded by William Wyer].
• Drayton, Thomas (1809-1891) - President of Charleston & Savannah Railroad 1853-1856.
• Drew, Daniel (1797-1879) - Financier of the Erie Railroad, in conjunction with Jim Fisk.
• Drew, J. G. - President of Coal Belt Electric Railway. (Illinois PUC, 1915, p 1257)
• Drexel, Jos. W. - President of Natchez, Jackson & Columbus Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 130)
• Drummond, Dugald (1840-1912) - Chief mechanical engineer for North British Railway 1875-1882 [preceded by Thomas Wheatley; succeeded by Matthew Holmes]; locomotive superintendent for Caledonian Railway 1882-1890 [preceded by George Brittain; succeeded by Hugh Smellie]; locomotive superintendent for London & South Western Railway 1895-1912 [preceded by William Adams; succeeded by Robert Urie].
• Drummond, George - President of Cumberland Railway & Coal Company. (Pocket List 1907, p 297)
• Drummond, Peter (1850-1918) - Chief mechanical engineer for Highland Railway 1896-1911 [preceded by David Jones; succeeded by Fredrick George Smith]; chief mechanical engineer for Glasgow & South Western Railway 1912-1918 [preceded by James Manson; succeeded by Robert Harben Whitelegg].
• Dubach, E. C. - President of D'Arbonne Valley Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 299)
• DuBois, J. D. - President of Wheeling & Elm Grove Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 197)
• Ducharme, Richard C. "Rick" (born 1948) - Managing director of GO Transit 1993-1999 [preceded by Al Leach; succeeded by Gary McNeil]; Chief general manager of Toronto Transit Commission 1999-2006 [preceded by David L. Gunn; succeeded by Gary Webster].
• Dudley, E. L. - Receiver and general manager of Central Iowa Railway. (Poor's 1887, p 27)
• Duff, R. C. - President of Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad __-1908 [succeeded by A. J. Davidson]. (Pocket List 1907, p 217; Railroad Age Gazette, July 17, 1908, p 552)
• Dunbaugh, Harry J. - President of Chicago & Elmhurst Railway. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1251)
• Duncan, James - President of Litchfield & Madison Railway. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1224)
• Duncan, William Butler - President of Mobile & Ohio Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 127)
• Dunlap, D. C. - President of Elgin Belt Railway; president of Elgin Terminal Railway. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1307)
• Dunn, John N. - President of Atlanta & Florida Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 7)
• Dunsmuir, R. - President of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 79)
• Du Pont, H. A. - President of Wilmington & Northern Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 198)
• Durant, Thomas Clark (1820-1885) - Vice president of Union Pacific Railroad; set up the financial processes that led to the Credit Mobilier scandals.
• Durant, W. W. - President of Adirondack Railway. (Poor's 1887, p 1; Official List 1888, p 1)
• Duval, H. R. - Receiver for Florida Railway & Navigation Company. (Official List 1888, p 81)

Photo credits

• Agnew T. Dice - Cropped from a scan of the original photograph that is included in the Harris & Ewing Collection at the Library of Congress website. The rights and reproductions page for this collection (retrieved February 18, 2014) asserts that the copyrights on the photographs in this collection have expired. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, [call number LC-H2-B-3679].
• J. D. De Frees - Cropped from a scan of Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific, in the collection of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, available through the Library of Congress website, retreived February 11, 2014.  The original document notes that the image was created based on a photograph by "Ohr" of Indianapolis for Lloyd's American Guide.  Because this document was first published in 1859, it is my understanding that this is now in the public domain.
• Grenville M. Dodge - Cropped from a scan of the original photograph available as part of the Bain Collection on the Library of Congress website. The MARC record for this photograph (retrieved January 1, 2016) asserts that there are "no known restrictions on publication," and because this photograph was first published in the United States before 1923, it is my understanding that this is now in the public domain.