Lucius E. Johnson
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Lucius E. Johnson (1846 – 1921) was a president of the Norfolk and Western Railway from 1904 until his death in 1921, with the exception of 5 months in 1918 (during World War I) when he served as Chairman of its Board. He lived in Roanoke, Virginia.
Johnson succeeded legendary Frederick J. Kimball, who had opened the Pocahontas coalfields to land the N&W railroad owned.
In 1906, as N&W president, Johnons had the dubious distinction of being brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends, millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers. N&W corporate records only record that the meeting lasted only a few minutes. However, Johnson was apparently the first of the leaders of the big railroads to finally learned the mysterious source of William N. Page's deep pockets which had been building a new railroad across southern West Virginia and Virginia to compete for the coal traffic destined for Hampton Roads.
The N&W would come to envy and covet the Virginian Railway and its more modern and gentler gradient pathway for eastbound coal for over 50 years before finally acquiring it through merger in 1959.
| Preceded by Frederick J. Kimball |
President of Norfolk and Western Railway 1904–1921 |
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| NAME | Johnson, Lucius E. |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American railroad executive |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1846 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | 1921 |
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