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

• Yadav, Lalu Prasad (born 1947) - Minister of Railways for India 2004-2009.
• Yakunin, Vladimir (born 1948) - Deputy Russian Transport Minister 2000-2003; Deputy Head of Russian Railways 2003-2005; president of Russian Railways 2005-present.
• Yarnall, F. C. - President of Lehigh & Lackawanna Railroad. (Official List 1888, p 111)
• Yates, A. G. - President of Silver Lake Railroad. President of Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. (Official List 1888, p 176; Pocket List 1907, p 227)
• Yeomans, James Dallas (1845-1906) - Began railroad career on the Erie Railroad 1862-1864; moved to Tennessee and worked on various railroads for the Union government during the Civil War; assistant superintendent for Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railway 1872-1873, superintendent of same in 1873; general superintendent of Olean, Bradford & Warren Railway; worked with railroad construction projects in New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan; commissioner for the Interstate Commerce Commission 1894-1905.
• Yerington, Henry Marvin (1829-1910) - President of Bodie & Benton Railway & Commercial Company; president and general superintendent of Carson & Colorado Railroad. (Poor's 1887, p 17; Official List 1888, pp 15 and 29)
• Yetter, Milton - President of Delaware Valley Railroad. (Pocket List 1907, p 303)
• B. F. Yoakum
  Yoakum, B. F. - Chairman of Chicago & Alton Railroad. Chairman of the executive committee for Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Chairman of the executive committee for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway. (Pocket List 1907, pp 251, 253 and 277)
• Yocum, Fred - Chicago & North Western Railway. (Trains, June 1991, p 18)
• Young, Bennett H. - President of Kentucky & Indana Bridge Company; president of Southwestern Railroad of Kentucky. (Official List 1888, pp 107 and 180)
• Young, James H. - President of Brighthope Railway; president of Norfolk Southern Railroad. (Poor's 1887, p 19; Official List 1888, p 19; NY Times, May 22, 1918; Poor's 1917, p 124)
• Young, Jim - CEO of Union Pacific Railroad.
• Young, Robert Ralph (1897-1958) - Financier and controlling stockholder of New York Central Railroad.  After suspending company dividents in 1958, Young comitted suicide.

Photo credits

• B. F. Yoakum - Cropped from a scan of the original photograph available as part of the Bain Collection at the Library of Congress website. The image description page for this photograph (retrieved January 2, 2016) asserts that there are "no known restrictions on publication."