Bill Wimmer is an American railroad executive who worked in operations for the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

. Wimmer started with the

Chicago and North Western Railway The Chicago and North Western was a Railroad classes#Class I, Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States. It was also known as the "North Western". The railroad operated more than of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over of t ...

in 1957, eventually becoming division engineer. He moved to Union Pacific in 1974. As Vice President-Engineering, he was awarded the 2007

Railroader of the Year Railroader of the Year is an annual award presented to a North American railroad industry worker by trade journal ''Railway Age''. The award was first presented in 1964 by trade journal ''Modern Railroads'' and has continued through the magazine ac ...

award. He was the second chief engineer to receive the award, after 1978's Robert M. Brown, also of Union Pacific, who had been his mentor. In June 2008, he was promoted to Vice President-Operations; he retired shortly thereafter, in July. He has served on the board of the R.J. Corman Railroad Group since December 2009. Since retiring, he and his wife run a railroad museum in Beaver Lake, south of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

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