Buck Crump

In 1971 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and in 1974 Crump retired.

Crump was elected President in 1955; the company was severely in debt at the time. At the time the company was mainly using diesel locomotives only in the railyards; during the following twelve years, Crump oversaw the dieselisation of the railroad. He ordered the refurbishment of the company's showcase train The Canadian.

After working as a track labourer and then in the machine shop, Crump was transferred to Winnipeg, where he continued to work while completing high school at night. After time off to complete a university degree, he took a position as a night foreman. He was transferred to Montreal as an assistant to the vice president, and in 1943 became Superintendent of the Ontario district. In 1948 Crump was a vice president at CPR; to counter lower numbers of passengers, he advocated increasing advertising and spending more money to make train travel attractive.

Crump was born in Revelstoke, British Columbia. His father was a railway superintendent. Crump joined the CPR as an apprentice machinist in 1920, when he was sixteen years old. In between working for the railway, he earned a bachelors and in 1936 a master's degree at Purdue University.

Norris Roy ("Buck") Crump, CC (July 30, 1904 – December 26, 1989) was a Canadian businessman and President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. He was primarily responsible for converting the railroad to diesel locomotives, and expanded the company into non-transportation sectors.