Thomas S. Carter Thomas S. Carter Thomas Smith Carter Jr. (born June 6, 1921) was an American engineer. He served as the thirteenth president of Kansas City Southern Railway, from 1973 to 1986. Carter was born in Dallas, Texas to Thomas Smith and Matilda (née Dowell) Carter. He attended Southern Methodist University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering in 1944. He also attended Kansas University and earned his master's degree in engineering management in 1991. Carter has worked as an engineer for the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, and Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroads. He also has
Elliot Carter Elliot Carter Elliot Carter is a writer and historian in Washington, D.C. Carter is a contributing writer for Washingtonian Magazine and Slate. His work has appeared in outlets such as Atlas Obscura, Vice, Real Clear Defense, and DCist. His work is heavily focused on Washington D.C.’s architecture, geography and history. In 2016, Carter obtained maps of the District of Columbia compiled during the Cold War by a military intelligence office in the USSR. He noted in a television interview that the maps were far more detailed than contemporaneous public maps, capturing sensitive information about military bases and the layout of