Creation
AAR was created October 12, 1934 by the merger of five industry-related groups:
- the American Railway Association,
- the Association of Railway Executives,
- the Bureau of Railroad Economics,
- the Railway Accounting Officers Association, and
- the Railway Treasury Officers Association.
William George Besler was its first President.
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