Jake Jacobson

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Lowell S. "Jake" Jacobson (1940-2021){{cite web |last1=Foran |first1=Patrick |title=Rail Insider-From the Editor — in memoriam: Jake Jacobson. Information for Rail Career Professionals from Progressive Railroading Magazine |url=https://www.progressiverailroading.com/short_lines_regionals/article/From-the-Editor-In-memoriam-Jake-Jacobson--64510 |publisher=Progressive Railroading |access-date=14 October 2021}} served 29 years with the Union Pacific Railroad, later president and chief operating officer of the Copper Basin Railway of Hayden, Arizona.

Jacobson was named Railway Age{{'}}s Railroader of the Year in 1994,{{cite journal

| author = Welty, Gus

|date=January 1994

| title = Jake Jacobson: a profile in courage

| journal = Railway Age

| url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_n1_v195/ai_14953681

| access-date = 2006-04-17 }} and a Great Railroader of the Century in December 1999.{{Citation

|title=A century of great railroaders

|newspaper=Railway Age

|date=December 1999

|url=http://www.railwayage.com/

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010217144938/http://www.railwayage.com/dec99/century.html

|archive-date=2001-02-17

|access-date=2011-01-04

|url-status=dead

}}

The American Shortline safety award is named after him: The Jake Award.{{cite journal

|date=October 2000

| title = ASLRRA presents "Jake Awards" - American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association

| journal = Railway Age

| url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_10_201/ai_66769251

| access-date = 2006-04-17 }} Since 2000, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association has sponsored these awards.