Railroader of the Year
Railroader of the Year is an annual award presented to a North American railroad industry worker by trade journal Railway Age. The award was first presented in 1964 by trade journal Modern Railroads and has continued through the magazine acquisition in 1992 to the present.
Past recipients of this award include:
- 1964 - D. William Brosnan
- 1965 - Stuart T. Saunders
- 1966 - Stuart T. Saunders
- 1967 - Louis W. Menk
- 1968 - William B. Johnson
- 1969 - John W. Barriger III
- 1970 - John Shedd Reed
- 1971 - Jervis Langdon, Jr.
- 1972 - Charles Luna
- 1973 - James W. Germany
- 1974 - L. Stanley Crane
- 1975 - Frank E. Barnett
- 1976 - William J. Harris, Jr.
- 1977 - Edward G. Jordan
- 1978 - Robert M. Brown
- 1979 - Theodore C. Lutz
- 1980 - John G. German
- 1981 - Lawrence Cena
- 1982 - A. Paul Funkhouser
- 1983 - L. Stanley Crane
- 1984 - Hays T. Watkins
- 1985 - John L. Cann
- 1986 - Raymond C. Burton, Jr.
- 1987 - Willis B. Kyle
- 1988 - Darius W. Gaskins, Jr.
- 1989 - W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
- 1990 - Arnold B. McKinnon
- 1991 - Mike Walsh
- 1992 - William H. Dempsey
- 1993 - Raymond C. Burton, Jr.
- 1994 - L. S. “Jake” Jacobson
- 1995 - Edward L. Moyers
- 1996 - Robert D. Krebs and Gerald Grinstein
- 1997 - Paul M. Tellier
- 1998 - David R. Goode
- 1999 - Edward Burkhardt
- 2000 - The Railroad Worker
- 2001 - Mike Haverty
- 2002 - E. Hunter Harrison
- 2003 - Richard K. Davidson
- 2004 - Robert J. Ritchie
- 2005 - David R. Goode
- 2006 - Richard F. Timmons
- 2007 - Bill Wimmer
- 2008 - Steve Tobias
- 2009 - Michael J. Ward
- 2010 - Matthew K. Rose
- 2011 - Wick Moorman
- 2012 - David L. Starling
- 2013 - James R. Young
- 2014 - Joseph H. Boardman
- 2015 - E. Hunter Harrison
- 2016 - Carl Ice
- 2017 - Tom Prendergast
- 2018 - John C. “Jack” Hellmann
- 2019 - Jean-Jacques “JJ” Ruest
- 2020 - Patrick J. Ottensmeyer
- 2021 - Keith Creel
- 2022 - Keith Creel and Patrick J. Ottensmeyer