Samuel Morse Felton Jr. (February 3, 1853 – March 11, 1930)[1] was an American railroad executive.

[3] He was an 1873 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[1] where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.

Felton entered the railroad industry as a rodman in Chester Creek, Pennsylvania, and worked his way up through engineer and superintendent positions.

[5] He also led the Alton Railroad (1899–1907), the Mexican Central Railroad (1907), the Tennessee Central Railway and the Chicago Great Western Railway (1909–1925), before his own ailing health forced his retirement.

[1] During World War I (1914/1917-1918), Felton was appointed Director General of Military Railways[1] with a military rank of brigadier general and in that capacity had charge of the organization and dispatch to France of all American railway forces and supplies for the Western Front.