11: Michael R. Haverty, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1989–1995, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway 1995–present. November births November 7: E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993–1998, Railroader of the Year 2002, president of Canadian National Railway 2003–2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012–2017, CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017 (died 2017). Deaths January deaths January 8: William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (born 1878). March deaths March 7: Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway (UK) 1923–1937 (born 1868). March 21: Hugo Lentz, Austrian inventor of a valve gear for steam engines (born 1859). June deaths June 19: Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 (born 1855). References