Henry Posner III


Henry Posner III is an American transport executive and investor working in the field of rail transport.
Posner received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1977, and received a Master of Business Administration in finance from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.
In 2025, Posner was inducted into the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association's Hall of Fame, alongside Ronald Batory and the late Earl Durden.

Career

During the 1970s Posner started selling Amtrak passenger tickets. Summer employment during university included proofreading timetables for the Official Railway Guide and an internship at Rock Island Railroad.
During a summer job working at Pennsylvania Truck Lines, Posner was working for Anne Molley.
After graduating from Princeton University Posner worked as a trainmaster at Conrail in New York City and in Detroit.
, Posner was chair of Railroad Development Corporation, chair of Hamburg-Köln-Express; chair of RegioRail in France, and vice chairman of The Hawthorne Group.

Personal life

Posner's grandfather Henry Posner was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigrated to the United States in c.1905, aged seventeen.
Posner's parents Henry Posner Jr. and Helen MacMurdo Posner were married in 1953. Henry Posner III married Anne Molley in 1982.
, Posner III continued to live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
From 1998 onwards, Posner served as a trustee of the Winchester Thurston School, additionally serving as president for four years.
In May 2014, Posner spoke at the International Transport Forum at the need for cooperation as well as competition within rail transport in Europe.
Since 2017, Posner has been an adjunct instructor at Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, teaching the course "The American Railroad-Decline and Renaissance in the Era of Deregulation". In the course Posner shares eccentric stories of his time working in the railroad industry. In 2021 Posner hired two students from the course to facilitate work on a battery-operated Vivarail D-Train imported from the United Kingdom for the "Pop-up Metro" project.
In February 2022, Posner briefly returned to front line service, crewing and interpreting on board a refugee rescue train operated by Deutschland between Frankfurt station and Hannover Messe station in Germany, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In mid-2022 the Posner Foundation renewed its yearly grant funding to Operation Lifesaver for work towards increasing safety at level crossings.

Publications

Posner's photography archive is held by the Center for Railroad Photography and Art.
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