[1] His career began in 1925, at the age of fifteen, when the New York Central Railroad hired him as a freight station clerk in his native Syracuse.

[3] Nash was elected vice president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, another New York Central subsidiary, in July 1952.

[6] The Lehigh had not been profitable since 1956, and toward the end of the 1960s depended on its owner, first the Pennsylvania and then Penn Central, to keep afloat.

Nash resigned as co-trustee in August 1974 after a salary dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission.

[9] After his retirement, Nash moved to Florida and was an active member of the Boca Raton Historical Society.