Building and Running the Railroads

William Truesdale by the Lackawanna Limited in 1915

NPS Photo Cropped Version of STEA 7469_B2310

William H. Truesdale

William Haynes Truesdale served as the President and CEO of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western from 1899 to 1925. During that time the railroad was heavily rebuilt into one of the most modern railroads in the world and expericence its most profitiable years.