The Rip Track

• Kalmbach, Al C. - Founder of Kalmbach Publishing Company, the publisher of Model Railroader and Trains magazines as well as a large number of books about railroading.
• Kandó, Kálmán (1869-1931) - Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902.
• Keyes, Henry (1810-1870) - Helped to revitalize the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad; president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 1869-1870.
• Kidde, Walter (1877-1943) - President of New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway 1937-1943.
• Kiley, John P. - President of the Milwaukee Road until 1957.
• Frederick J. Kimball

  Kimball, Frederick J. (1844-1903) - American civil engineer who was instrumental in the formation of the Norfolk & Western Railway.

• Kimball, Ward (1914-2002) - Disney cartoonist who built the Grizzly Flats Railroad, collaborated with Walt Disney to build the Disneyland Railroad, original host of the "Tracks Ahead" television series for Milwaukee Public Television.
• Kirkwood, James P. (1807-1877) - Designer of Starucca Viaduct.
• Kittson, Norman (1814-1888) - Collaborated with James J. Hill, Donald Alexander Smith and George Stephen in 1879 to purchase the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, which eventually became the oldest predecessor of Great Northern Railway.
• Knight, Rob - Chief Financial Officer for Union Pacific Railroad __-present.
• Knott, Stuart R. (1859-1943) - President of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900-1905.
• Knorr, George (1859-1911) - inventor of the Knorr brake system, the first automatic graduated braking system designed for use in European freight trains.
• Krebs, Robert D. - Began railroad career with the Cotton Belt in the 1960s; became the youngest Superintendent of the Pine Bluff Division in 1971 at age 29; president of Southern Pacific 1982-1984; CEO of Santa Fe 1984-1995; shared the title of Railroader of the Year in 1996 with Gerald Grinstein (the last CEO of Burlington Northern); CEO of BNSF 1995-2002; director for RailPower Technologies 2002-2005.
• Kryšpín, Vojtěch - Czechoslovak locomotive builder, originator of the Kryšpín system of locomotive class naming.
• Kummant, Alexander (born 1962) - Began railroad career with Union Pacific.  President of Amtrak 2006-2008.
• Kunisawa, Simbei - President of South Manchuria Railway 1917-__.

Photo credits

• Frederick J. Kimball - Wikipedia's image description page (retrieved March 6, 2009) asserts that this photograph is in the public domain due to both its age (taken before 1903) and that it was first published by the Works Progress Administration, a US Federal agency.