Wayne A. Johnston (November 19, 1897 - December 1967) was president of Illinois Central Railroad (IC) from 1945 to 1966. When he stepped down from the presidency of the railroad, he was named Chairman of the Board for IC, a position he held for a year. In 1967, he was also named president of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, of which he had been a member since 1951 (having won election to the board in 1950 ,1956, and 1962.[1]
From April 1949 until September 2009, Illinois Central's classification yard in Memphis, Tennessee was named after him. Johnston Yard was reconfigured and modernized in September 2009 and renamed Harrison Yard after CN CEO E. Hunter Harrison, who would retire at the end of the year.
Further reading
Wayne A. Johnston, President. Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Illinois Central Railroad. Retrieved 2006-02-09.
. Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945-1967. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on 2002-06-07. Retrieved 2006-02-09.
Crowson, George M. (1968). A Lifetime of Service: Wayne Johnston and the Illinois Central Railroad.
References
^"Trustees, University of Illinois Board of Trustees" (PDF). University of Illinois. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
^Chicago Railroad Fair Official Guide Book. 1949..
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