Key Figures in Railroad History

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Eugene Riley

Engineer — Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad

<div class="mh-excerpt">Eugene Riley was the engineer on the No. 2 express train on July 28, 1869, when it crashed at Budds Creek near Clarksville, Tennessee.</div> <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://railfanning.org/people/name/eugene-riley/" title="Eugene Riley"></a>

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Isaac Martin Roberts

Engineer — Roswell Railroad

<div class="mh-excerpt">Isaac Martin “Ike” Roberts was a longtime engineer whose career spanned nearly six decades and is best remembered as the longtime engineer of the Roswell Railroad.</div> <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://railfanning.org/people/name/isaac-roberts/" title="Isaac Martin Roberts"></a>

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Richard Robey

<div class="mh-excerpt">Richard Robey, a native of Cranford, New Jersey, began his railroading career in 1964 with a college summer job at the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.</div> <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://railfanning.org/people/name/richard-robey/" title="Richard Robey"></a>

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