1949 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1949.
Events
January events
- January 22 - The American Freedom Train - 1947-1949 station stops.
February events
- February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F7.
March events
- March 19 - The San Francisco, California, as the first train to include Vista Dome carsin regular service.
- March 20 - The first eastbound Chicago.
April events
- April 24 - Rail service on the streetcars and convert to an all-bustransit system.
May events
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- May 5 – Baltimore, Washington and Chicago. The two eight-car trains will be the only all-new consists built for the B&O in the postwar period and the first trains in the eastern U.S. to be equipped with dome cars.[1]
- May 13 - Lima Locomotive Works ships Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #779, Lima's last steam locomotive.
June events
- June - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP7.
- June 1 - Japanese National Railways is organized.
- June 29 - The final day of motive power.
August events
- August - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E8.
- August 1 - Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway absorbed by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.[2]
September events
- September 7 - Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft.
- September 19 - the Budd Company unveils its first Rail Diesel Car (RDC) at Union Station in Chicago, Illinois.[3]
October events
- October 7 - Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad converts completely to diesel locomotive power.[4]
- October - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD GP7.
- October - Robert E. Woodruff as president of the Erie Railroad.[5]
- October - Interfrigo set up to manage stock of refrigerated vans on European railways.
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Unknown date events
- Budd Rail Diesel Car introduced.
- First of final steam locomotive class to be built for Soviet Railways, express passenger class P36 4-8-4 П36-001, is turned out of Kolomna Locomotive Works. There will be 251 examples, the most of this wheel arrangement outside the United States.
- Summer - Construction starts on the ill-fated Salekhard-Igarka Railway in SiberianArctic.
Accidents
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Births
January births
- January 19 - David Laney, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Amtrak 2003–2007.[6]
Deaths
March deaths
- March 31 - Grant Stauffer, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1948–1949, dies.
May deaths
- May - Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925-1929 (born 1887).
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-883089-00-9.
- ^ Saxena, R. P. (2008). "Indian Railway History Time Line". Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ Duke & Keilty 1990, p. 50
- ^ Lemly, James H. (1953). The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio. Richard D. Irwin, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 2005-03-15.
- ^ "Texas Transportation Pioneer Inducted into Hall of Honor". Texas Transportation Researcher. Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
References
- Dodge, Richard V. (1960). Rails of the Silver Gate. ISBN 978-0-87095-019-3.
- Duke, Donald; Keilty, Edmund (1990). RDC: The Budd Rail Diesel Car. San Marino, California: ISBN 978-0-87095-103-9.