R&LHS Railroad History Awards:
George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award

The award is for an outstanding work, published in the three year period 2016, 2015, or 2014, of lasting value to the interpretation of North America’s railroading history.

• 2021 Patrick C. Wider
• 2020 William Withuhn
  
• 2019 Simon Cordery
• 2018 (no award)
• 2017 (no award)
• 2016 Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer
• 2015 John Gruber
• 2014 Gregory L. Schneider
• 2013 H. Craig Miner
• 2012 Ed Wolfe
• 2011 Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
• 2010 William D. Middleton and William D. Middleton III
• 2009 Marvin Clemons and Lyle Key
• 2008 Don L. Hofsommer
• 2007 Rush Loving, Jr.
• 2006 Richard Orsi
• 2005 Richard Steinheimer, Shirley Burman, and Jeff Brouws
• 2004 Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
• 2003 Steven W. Usselman
• 2002 Richard Saunders, Jr.
• 2001 David Haward Bain
• 2000 Fred W. Frailey
• 1999 H. Roger Grant
• 1998 Richard S. Simons and F. H. Packer
• 1997 Christopher Baer, Willian Coxey, and Paul W. Schopp
• 1996 John K. Brown
• 1995 Carlos A. Schwantes
• 1994 James S. Dilts
• 1993 Dan Cupper
• 1992 Allen Trelease
• 1991 George W. Hilton
• 1990 Keith L. Bryant, Jr.
• 1989 Maury Klein
• 1988 Don L. Hofsommer
• 1987 Maury Klein
• 1986 John Stiloge
• 1985 H. Roger Grant
• 1984 Stuart Leuthner
• 1983 Thomas T. Taber and Thomas T. Taber III
• 1982 Richard Overton