{{short description|American railroad executive}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = William E. Wimmer | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = Railroad executive | known_for = 2007 Railroader of the Year | alma_mater = | footnotes = <ref name="bloomberg">{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=145936295&privcapId=33062075 |publisher=Bloomberg |title=Bill Wimmer: Executive Profile & Biography |accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref><ref name="railroaderoftheyear">{{cite journal | last=Vantuono | first=William C. | title=Bill Wimmer: building Union Pacific | journal=Railway Age | via=HighBeam Research |date=2007-01-01 | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-158526754.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116062140/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-158526754.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2018-11-16 | accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref> }} '''Bill Wimmer''' is an American railroad executive who worked in operations for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Wimmer started with the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1957, eventually becoming division engineer. He moved to Union Pacific in 1974.<ref name="bloomberg"/>
As Vice President-Engineering, he was awarded the 2007 Railroader of the Year award. He was the second chief engineer to receive the award, after 1978's Robert M. Brown, also of Union Pacific, who had been his mentor.<ref name="Union Pacific 2007">{{cite press release | title=UP: Union Pacific Vice President-Engineering Bill Wimmer Named Railway Age Railroader Of The Year | location=Omaha, Nebraska | publisher=Union Pacific | date=2007-01-12 | url=https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/human_resources/2007/0112_wimmer.shtml | accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref> In June 2008, he was promoted to Vice President-Operations;<ref name="Union Pacific 2008">{{cite press release | title=UP: Union Pacific Announces Management Changes in Engineering Department | location=Omaha, Nebraska | publisher=Union Pacific | date=2008-05-16 | url=https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/human_resources/2008/0516_engineering.shtml | accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref> he retired shortly thereafter, in July. He has served on the board of the R.J. Corman Railroad Group since December 2009.<ref name="R. J. Corman Railroad Group">{{cite web | title=Corporate Officers | website=R. J. Corman Railroad Group | url=http://www.rjcorman.com/about/officers.html | accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref>
Since retiring, he and his wife run a railroad museum in Beaver Lake, south of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.<ref name="Peterson 1970">{{cite news | last=Peterson | first=Patti Jo | title=Museum draws 160 railroad buffs to Beaver Lake | newspaper=Fremont Tribune | date=2015-06-10 | url=http://fremonttribune.com/cass-news/news/museum-draws-railroad-buffs-to-beaver-lake/article_f32420e6-b822-5b0d-a756-594c937ff29f.html | accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref>
==See also== * List of railroad executives
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