Lucius E. Johnson (April 13, 1846 – February 9, 1921) was a president of the Norfolk and Western Railway from September 30, 1903, until the mid teens, when he was named chairman of the board, a position he held until his retirement on January 1, 1921.

Johnson started his railroad career after leaving school in Aurora, working as a brakeman, fireman, then locomotive engineer.

[1] Johnson succeeded the legendary Frederick J. Kimball, who had opened the Pocahontas coalfields to land the N&W railroad owned.

However, Johnson was apparently the first of the leaders of the big railroads who finally learned the mysterious source of William N. Page's deep pockets, which had been building a new railroad across southern West Virginia and Virginia to compete for the coal traffic destined for Hampton Roads.

The N&W would come to envy and covet the Virginian Railway and its more modern and gentler gradient pathway for eastbound coal for over 50 years before finally acquiring it through merger in 1959.