Ben Nealy is a railroad contractor who
Dagny Taggart hires to replace the track on the
Rio Norte Line with
Rearden Metal. Nealy is incompetent, but Dagny can find no one better in all the country. Nealy believes that anything can get done with enough muscle power. He sees no role for intelligence in human achievement, and this is manifest in his inabillity to organize the project and to make decisions. He relies on Dagny and
Ellis Wyatt to run things, and resents them for doing it, because it appears to him like they are just bossing people around.
Ben Nealy appears in Section171.
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