Key Figures in Railroad History

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John Isaac Black

Engineer — Louisville & Nashville Railroad

John Black of Paris, Tennessee, was the engineer on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad train that plunged from an open drawbridge in Clarksville, Tennessee, into the Cumberland River 50 feet below on June 13, 1947.

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Foster Blodgett

Superintendent — Western & Atlantic Railroad

Foster Blodgett Jr. was a businessman, politician, and superintendent of Georgia's Western & Atlantic Railroad.

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Alan Stephenson Boyd

President — Amtrak

Alan Stephenson Boyd was a lawyer by trade, and in November 1966, he was the first secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.

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