1973 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1973.
Events
January events
- January 27 – Penn Central to form the basis of the new commuter system's network.[citation needed]
February events
- February 26 – WM railroad system.[1]
March events
- March 30 – Toronto's Yonge Subway is extended to York Mills station.[2]
May events
- May 21 – Passenger traffic begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Concord line, through the 3.1 mi (5.0 km) Berkeley Hills Tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, California beneath the Berkeley Hills.[3]
June events
- June 3 – The
- June 22 – The EMD SDP40F diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.[5]
August events
- August 17 – The last DB Class E 40 leaves the gates of the Krupp factory in Essen.[citation needed]
September events
- September 28 – St Louis corridor.[6]
November events
- November 5 – Daly City.[3]
- November 7 – Canadian passenger train hauled by an EMD F40PH diesel-electric locomotive.[citation needed]
December events
- December 19 – The Ealing Broadway and West Ealing. Ten passengers are killed and 94 injured
Unknown date events
- The isolated coal hauler, the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad, opens in Northern Arizona, the world's first line to use 50,000 V overhead line power.[citation needed]
- N'Gaoundéré.[citation needed]
- John W. Barriger III becomes president of the Boston and Maine Railroad.[7]
Accidents
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References
- ^ "Railroad Fallen Flags: C". Classic Trains. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. 2006-06-26. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ City of Toronto (2006). "Toronto Transit Commission – History". Archived from the original on 29 March 2006. Retrieved 2006-03-29.
- ^ a b "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
- ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- ^ Ingles, J. David (December 1975). "The power behind the pointless arrow". Trains. 36 (2): 23.
- ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3.
- ^ "John W. Barriger; Rail historian and railfan". Archived from the original on 2005-03-01. Retrieved 2005-02-22.