The Rip Track

• Ramsbottom, John (1814-1897) - Superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway.
• Randolph, A. Philip (1889-1979) - Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.
• Rastrick, John Urpeth (1780-1856) - English steam locomotive builder and partner with James Foster in Foster, Rastrick & Co., the company that built the Stourbridge Lion.
• Raven, Vincent - Chief Mechanical Engineer for North Eastern Railway 1910-1922.
• Reed, John Shedd (1917-2008) - President of Santa Fe Railroad 1967-1986.
• Reid, Robert Gillespie (1842-1908) - Builder of many Canadian railway bridges and the Newfoundland Railway.
• Reid, W. P. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for North British Railway 1903-1914.
• Reidy, Edward T. (1903-1975) - President of Chicago Great Western Railway 1957-1968.
• Reistrup, Paul H. - Traffic Vice President for Illinois Central Railroad.  President of Amtrak 1974-1978. (Phillips, June 1991, p 28)
• Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902) - British engineer responsible for the main Cape-Cairo Railway route in Africa.
• Richardson, George W. - Awarded a US patent on September 25, 1866, for a steam locomotive pop safety valve.
• Richmond, James - General manager of Jamaica Railway 1900-__.
• Rión, Francisco Javier - CEO of Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana 2005-__.
• Ritchie, Robert J. - President and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 1995-present.
David B. Robertson in a meeting with the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee chairman on May 20, 1938.
• Robertson, David B. - President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
• Robinson, Albert Alonzo (1844-1918) - Vice president and general manager of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
• Robinson, J. G. - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great Central Railway 1900-1922.
• Rogers, Albert Bowman (1829-1889) - American surveyor who, while working for Canadian Pacific Railway, found a pass through the Canadian Rockies that would eventually bear his name, Rogers Pass.
• Rogers, Henry Huttleston (1840-1909) - American financier partly responsible for the Virginian Railway.
• Rose, Matt - Chief Executive Officer of BNSF Railway -present.
• Rouvillois, Philippe - President of SNCF __-1986.
• Ruthven, — - Chief Mechanical Engineer for Great North of Scotland Railway 1855-1857.

Photo credits

• David B. Robertson - Cropped from a scan of the original photo available through the Harris & Ewing Collection on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division website.  The rights and reproductions page for this collection asserts that the copyrights on the photographs in the collection have expired and that publication is therefore permitted.