1919 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1919.
Events
March events
Helsinki station
- March 5 – Rebuilt
April events
- April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.
May events
- May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban Essendon.
September events
- September 27–October 6 – Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.[3]
October events
- October 17 – Madrid Metro opens.
- October 20 – The metre-gauge railway from La Paz (Bolivia) to Cumbre opens.[4]
November events
J.D. Spreckels drives the "golden spike" on the San Diego & Arizona Railway
- November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.[5][6]
December events
- December 1
- The first
- The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.[7]
- December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is 987 meters (3,238 ft) long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 meters (1,801 ft).[8]
- December 20 – Onawa train wreck: A collision on the International Railway of Maine kills 23 people.[9]
Unknown date events
- Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.[10][11]
- The Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for antitrust reasons.[12]
- Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.
Births
Deaths
February deaths
- February 23 - Guy Calthrop, general manager of London and North Western Railway, previously of Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (born 1870).
April deaths
- April 24 - Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in Chinawithout foreign assistance (born 1861).
August deaths
- August 3 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (born 1840).[13][14]
- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (born 1835).
October deaths
- October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (born 1837).
References
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- ^ Wells, Jeffrey (2010). "The Nine Days' Strike of 1919". Backtrack. 24: 22–7, 120–4.
- Locomotive Magazine. 26: 273–6.
- ^ ISBN 0-87046-071-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-87095-019-3.
- ^ "Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada" (Press release). Railway Association of Canada. 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ Pont de Québec timeline Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ISBN 0-8453-4844-2.
- ^ "20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd". President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-02-05. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
- ^ "American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd". PBS. 2000. Archived from the original on 2005-03-09. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
- ^ "Fruit Growers Express Company Refrigerator Car No. 35832". Sacramento, California: California State Railroad Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
The most successful private refrigerator car company was the Armour Car Lines, including its subsidiary, the Fruit Growers Express. Success led to downfall, for in 1919 the Federal Trade Commission ordered the sale of the produce hauling subsidiary for antitrust reasons. A group of eastern and southern railroads formed a new Fruit Growers Express Company in 1920 to take over the operations. By 1926 FGE had expanded service into the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest through its partly owned cooperating subsidiaries, Western Fruit Express and Burlington Fruit Express.
- ^ "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2005-08-15.
- ^ Fordyce, Jim (1999). "Samuel W. Fordyce biography". Retrieved 2005-08-15.