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American railway executive ()

"Hunter Harrison" redirects here. For the soccer player, see Hunter Harrison (soccer).

Ewing Hunter Harrison (November 7, – December 16, ) was a railway executive who served as the CEO of Illinois Central Railroad (IC), Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), and CSX Corporation.

He is known for introducing precision scheduled railroading to the companies he ran.^[3] He died on December 16, , two days after taking medical leave from CSX.

Biography

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in ,^[4] Harrison began his railroad career in when he worked as a carman-oiler for the St.

Louis-San Francisco Railway ("Frisco"), while attending Memphis State University.^[5] Harrison was later promoted to railroad operator with Frisco and, later, with Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) following that company's acquisition of Frisco in ^[6]

Harrison left the BN in and secured a job with the