mark s posted:I have a nagging memory/suspicion that Robert MacMillan was the President of the Toledo, Peoria & Western RR, particularly when NKP 765 made two trips out of Peoria in May 1980. Do I have that correct, that he headed the "Tip Up" ?
born July 13, 1926 in Chicago Illinois
died Friday October 9, 2015
Following in the footsteps of his parents, grandfathers and uncles, he dreamed only of working for the railroad. His railroad career began in 1941, on the Illinois Central Railroad, first as an extra gang laborer, then as office boy, chainman, and fireman while in college. In 1949, he was hired at the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, advancing to become the assistant to the president in 1961. He was director of research and planning for the C&EI before moving to the Chicago & Western Indiana in 1963 as vice president and general manager where he was promoted to president in 1964. In 1966, he was named president and general manager of the Kansas City Terminal Railway. In 1968, he returned to Chicago to be the assistant to the vice president of operations of the Santa Fe Railway and stayed until 1977 when he became the president of the Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad until his retirement.
