1946 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1946.
Events
January events
- January 1 – The Lichfield rail crash in England kills 20 people.
- January 18 – The Harvey Girls, a movie starring Judy Garland and Ray Bolger and set in a Harvey House Hotel, makes its American debut. The movie will win a Best Song Oscar for Johnny Mercer’s “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”.
- January 21 – The Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa is fined $50 for violating a local law against moving freight on the city streets between midnight and 5:00 AM when it was delivering loads to oil companies along Laurier Avenue.[1]
February events
- February 1 – Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, succeeding Charles Fairburn.
- February 20 – passenger car built after World War II.
- February 25 – The worst-ever train crash in Japan kills 184 people.
March events
- March 29 – The north end of Interprovincial Bridge is destroyed by fire, severing Château Laurier from Hull Electric Railway passenger service.[2]
April events
- April 5 – The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Act is amended by the Ontario government, to change the name of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway to the Ontario Northland Railway.[3]
- April 25 – Naperville train disaster in Naperville, Illinois, United States: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Advance Flyer, stopped in the station, is rammed by the railroad's Exposition Flyer. 45 killed, more than 100 injured.
May events
- May 17 – President Harry Truman seizes control of the railroads to prevent a nationwide strike.
- May 30 – After a short Hudson and Manhattan Railroad trainmen go on strike again when the Pennsylvania Railroad(which owned the H&M at this time) management decides that the recent PRR pay increase does not apply to H&M employees.
June events
- June 20 – First use of a Public Address system on a passenger train for station announcements. The system was installed in a New York City Subway car.
July events
- July – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F2.
- July 1 – Opening of replacement .
August events
- August 10 – The Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan, the first new postwar streamliner.
- August 14 – Fréjus Rail Tunnel reopened as reconstructed after wartime closure (first public train September 11).[4]
- August 24 – The Boston and Maine Railroad replaces electric locomotive operation through the Hoosac Tunnel with diesel locomotives.
- August 27 – The last T1 class steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Pennsylvania Railroad enters service.[5]
September events
- September – The first production ALCO PA diesel-electric units are delivered for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the United States.
- September 29 – The St. Louis, Missouri.
December events
- December 7 – The power car from the M-10002 streamliner trainset is sold to Northrup-Hendy for gas turbine train testing.
- December 8 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD NW5.
- December 20 – Libyan section of Western Desert Extension Railway closed.
- December 23 – 8,872,244 ride the New York City Subway system, the current one-day record.
Unknown date events
- Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, England, construct 120 Liberation Class 2-8-0 steam locomotives to British Ministry of Supply order for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to supply to Eastern Europe.
- United States builders construct 160 KD7 Class 2-8-0 steam locomotives for the UNRRA to supply to China Railway; a similar design is supplied as Class 29 to Belgian Railways.[6]
- General Electric builds the electric locomotive model that will soon become known as the Little Joe.
- André Chapelon’s 4-8-4 SNCF 242A1 prototype compound locomotive is completed in France; it goes on to achieve extraordinary power outputs and efficiencies in coal and water use.[7]
- John W. Barriger III becomes president of the Monon Railroad.
- The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad is merged into the Atlantic Coast Line.
- The Pullman-Standard for nearly 300 cars. These cars entered service beginning in 1950.[8]
Births
Deaths
March deaths
- March 21 – Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902–1912, Director of the GNR and London and North Eastern Railway1912–1945 (born 1861).
November deaths
- November 10 – Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931–1946 (born 1879).
References
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 3, 2004), Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history Archived 2005-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 20, 2006.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2006.
- ^ "Welcome to www.mytemagami.ca!". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ Stuart, C. R. Gordon (1951). "The First Transalpine Railway Tunnel". Trains Annual: 57–8.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History: August". Retrieved 2006-08-02.
- ^ "KD7 Class 2-8-0". Railography : Chinese Steam Profiles. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
- ^ "French Compound Locomotives' Homepage - Technical Data". chapelon.net. Archived from the original on 11 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-01.
- OCLC 8848690. p. 69.
Sources
- (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
- Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society (2004), History of the Monon. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This month in railroad history – August. Retrieved August 23, 2005.
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