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=Canada=
* Luc Bergeron
** founder @ Shediac chretienne reunis, [[New Brunswick]]
** responded to the Gospel given by Raj Manuel in 1982 at the railway shops in Moncton, where the Canadian National Railway was based until 1988.
* Abraham Dennis Burdon (b. 1814 London, [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1897 Welland, [[Ontario|ON]]) railway inspector
** 1861 in fellowship with [[Sarnia Meeting Room, ON|Sarnia Meeting Room]] in [[Ontario]]. EB, later TW assembly. * James W.E. Collins (b. 1837 [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1906 Lambton, ON) Engineer @ Great Western Railway** correspondent @ [[Sarnia Meeting Room, ON|Sarnia Meeting Room]] (EB) in [[Ontario]].
* William Bell Dawson (1854-1944) Engineer @ Dominion Bridge Company 1882-1884; Asst. Engineer @ Canadian Pacific Railway 1884; Director @ Dominion Survey of Tides and Currents 1884-1924
** grad 1861 [[McGill University]]
* [[Edward Charles Barry Featherstonhaugh]] (b. 1851 Guelph, [[Ontario|ON]] - d. 1945 Montreal, [[Quebec|QC]]) ** in fellowship with [[Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC|Natural History Hall]] as early as 1871, and in leadership 1903-1945. ** his brother Robert Lea F. Featherstonhaugh (b. 1854 Brantford, [[Ontario|ON]] - d. 1890 Montreal [[Quebec|QC]]) served in 1877 as a Grand Trunk Railway clerk.
* [[Leslie McIntosh Grant]] (b. 1917 Innisfail, [[Alberta|AB]] - d. 2011 Kenmore, [[Washington|WA]])
** planted [[Grace and Truth Gospel Hall, Edmonton, AB]] (KLC)
** his father-in-law, Ellsworth Smiley, worked 31 years for the Northern Pacific Railway in [[Minnesota]], relocating to [[Idaho]] in 1949.
* [[John A. Hammond]] (1843-1939) member of the Geological Survey of Canada that laid the west route for the Canadian Pacific Railway
* John McConnell (b. 1854 [[Quebec|QC]] - d. 1946 Ottawa, [[Ontario|ON]]) retired 1923 from Canadian Pacific Railway.
** affiliated with the exclusive PB as early as 1891. Affiliated with the [[River Mead Meeting Room, QC|River Mead Meeting Room]] 1923-1927 which in a neighborhood of the same name, in Gatineau, [[Quebec]], across the river from Ottawa, [[Ontario]]. ** motorman @ 1901, switchman @ 1911.
* William Hector O'Neill (b. 1849 [[Quebec|QC]] - d. 1913 Seattle, [[Washington|WA]]) sailor & RR engineer
** his wife Charlotte was in fellowship in 1871 @ [[Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC|Natural History Hall]] in Montreal, [[Quebec]].
* William Newton Parsons (b. 1809 [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1888 Ingersoll, [[Ontario|ON]]) railway station master @ Beamsville, Lincoln, [[Ontario]] in 1861 while in fellowship with the EB [[Clinton Township Meeting Room, ON]], and presumably later at [[Ingersoll Meeting Room, ON]].
* J.W. Robertson - Agent @ Esquimalt and Nanaimo (E & N) Railway +1943-1948+ while serving as founding correspondent of Cowichan Lake Gospel Hall on Vancouver Island, [[British Columbia|B.C.]] which became [[Hope Gospel Hall, BC]] +1954-1960.
* [[Joseph Medlicott Scriven]]
** first Brethren preacher in [[Ontario]], arriving in 1845. ** In 1855, he resided in Huron County, near [[Clinton Meeting Room, ON|Clinton]], where he read the Bible frequently to men building the Grand Trunk Railway to Goderich.
* Frank Williams - Canadian Pacific Railway settler in 1930 to Paradise Valley, southeast of Edmonton, the founder of an OB Moyerton Assembly in 1932, which later dissolved, the remnant founding [[Paradise Valley Gospel Hall, AB]] in 1944, which continues. See [[Alberta history]].
=Scotland=
* [[Fife, Scotland]] - Railway Mission Hall founded in 1920 at Ladybank, Cupar. Later (1947) known as Ladybank Gospel Hall (OB).
=United States=
* B.J. Cheetham (b. 1924 Hinton, [[West Virginia|W.V.]] - d. 1980 Hampton, VA) pipe fitter 34 years @ C&O railroad
** lay preacher & elder at [[Bethany Gospel Chapel, Newport News, VA|Bethany Gospel Chapel]] (OB) in Newport News, [[Virginia]]
* T.J. Frazier - civil engineer @ B&O RR
** 1934 in fellowship @ [[Bethany Gospel Chapel, Newport News, VA|Bethany Gospel Chapel]] (OB) in Newport News, [[Virginia]]
* Robert Henry (b. 1883 Cookstown, Tyrone, Ireland, emig. 1900) ** founding contact @ [[Collingdale Gospel Chapel, PA|Collingdale Gospel Chapel]] (OB) 1914-1927+ in [[Pennsylvania]]
** 1910 night watchman @ Penn RR; 1920-1930 clerk @ RR
* [[Frederick Thompson Horton]] (b. 1860 Galesburg, [[Illinois|IL]] - d. 1938 Arkansas City, [[Kansas|KS]]) train dispatcher 45 years @ Santa Fe railway
** [[Arkansas City Gospel Hall, KS]] correspondent 1889-1938, saved in 1882 under meetings held by [[John Smith]] and Charles W. Ross. ** He built on a bluff 2 miles north of Arkansas City where he lived for 49 years, the text, “Christ died for the ungodly.” It was 476 feet long, 18 feet high and can be read two miles away. An invalid for 3 years and no longer able to take care of text, the Railway auxiliary permanently set the stone in concrete at an expense of $250.
* William Kiddy (b. 1865 [[Scotland|Scot.]] - d. 1932 Monongahela, Washington, [[Pennsylvania|PA]])
** co-founder @ [[Donora Gospel Hall, PA|Donora Gospel Hall]] (OB) in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1920, correspondent until 1932.
** area scalper @ RR Shops in 1910
** eldest son William Kiddy, Jr. (b. 1887 Lonaconing, [[Maryland|MD]] - d. 1938 Elrama, PA) P & L.E. engineer
* John Howard LaBolle (1909-1987) RR switchman
* John Thomas McGraw (b. 1854 Burnley, [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1915 Richmond, [[Virginia|VA]])
** served as a correspondent in 1908 for an EB-TW [[Richmond Meeting Room, VA|Richmond Meeting Room]] in [[Virginia]]. ** self-employed +1882-1910+ as a hardware merchant @ 1442 E. Main in Richmond that included railway materials among their stock.
* John Baker Nash (b. 1879 [[Nebraska|NE]] - d. 1910 Smoky Hill, [[Kansas|KS]]) RR switchman
** 1905 correspondent @ EB [[Pleasant Dale Meeting Room, NE|Pleasant Dale Meeting Room]] in Lancaster County, [[Nebraska]], later lived in Omaha.
* [[Edward Ostoff]] (1876-1952) 1930 Section Foreman @ Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR
* Bernard L. Redford (b. 1886 Richmond, VA - d. 1970 Hampton, VA) retired from C&O railroad
** ministered at [[Bethany Gospel Chapel, Newport News, VA]] as early as 1927 from Richmond, in fellowship as early as 1943 until his death.
* [[John Paul Rockey]] (b. 1926 Norfolk, VA - d. 2015 Cedar Falls, [[Iowa|IA]]) Seaboard Airline RR, Conrail, & Amtrak
** 1965-1973 @ [[Matoaca Gospel Hall, VA|Matoaca Gospel Hall]] in [[Virginia]], then 1973-2005 @ [[Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall, PA|Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall]] in [[Pennsylvania]], then 2005-2015 @ [[Cedar Falls Gospel Hall, IA|Cedar Falls Gospel Hall]] in [[Iowa]] all OB.
* Fred F. Schumacher (b. 1877 Germany) 1920 RR laborer @ Solon Springs, WI
** son [[Robert James Sherrard]] (1931-2010) co-founded the [[Hillview Bible Chapel, CA|San Jose Gospel Chapel]] now known as Hillview Bible Chapel, where he remained active until his home-calling.
* George Henry Weidman (b. 1888 Harrisburg, [[Pennsylvania|PA]] - d. 1940 Woodland Twp., Burlington, [[New Jersey|N.J.]])
** 1927 contact for [[Boas Street Gospel Hall, PA|Boas Street Gospel Hall]] in Harrisburg, [[Pennsylvania]].
** 1920 machinist in the steam RR industry in Harrisburg
* W.F. Wilson +1878-1880+ Chicago & Lake Huron RR (now part of Grand Trunk Western Railroad)
** earliest known EB correspondent @ [[Port Huron Meeting Room, MI|Port Huron Meeting Room]] in [[Michigan]].
==Misc RR==
* From the late 1890's, the Sunday School of [[Grace Chapel, Tenafly, NJ]], then known as Tenafly Hall, met in the nearby railway station. See [[New Jersey history]].