Robert Hall Smith (March 10, 1888 – June 18, 1960) was an American railroad executive who served as the President of the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) from 1946 to 1958.
[2] He joined the staff of N&W while still a student at Princeton;[2] working as an axeman and chainman on a surveying crew in the summer of 1910.
[2] After earning his diploma, Smith returned to N&W where he remained employed for the rest of his career.
He also supported the experimental coal-burning, steam-turbine electric locomotive, Jawn Henry, which the Railway tested from 1954 to 1957.
[1] He served a term as President of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce and was a trustee of Hollins College.