1912 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1912.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 3 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia.
- January 22 – The Florida East Coast Railway opens its rail connection to Key West.
[edit] February events
- February 27 – Pacific Great Eastern Railway (predecessor of the British Columbia Railway) is incorporated to build a line from Vancouver north to a connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Prince George, British Columbia.
[edit] June events
- June 2 – Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad (predecessor of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad) begins "one-car" passenger service directly to the Chicago Loop.[1]
[edit] September events
- September 17 – The Ditton Junction rail crash near Widnes in England kills 15.
[edit] November events
- November 24 – The Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier Chicago to New York train is christened the Broad Way Limited (named for the railroad’s four-track main line, not the New York City theatre district).
[edit] Unknown date events
- First FD Class 0-10-0 steam locomotive introduced in Russia. This will become the world's largest class with around 14,000 built.[2]
- The world’s first diesel locomotive designed for main line use, built by Gesellschaft für Thermolokomotiven Diesel-Klose-Sulzer GmbH for the Prussian state railways, Germany, receives trials on the Winterthur–Romanshorn line in Switzerland prior to delivery to Berlin for more trials in September. The unit has direct mechanical transmission with a weight of 95 tonnes, power of 883 kW and a theoretical maximum speed of 100 km/h but will not prove to be a commercial success.[2][3][4][5]
- Portland Company completes the last freight car commercially manufactured for Maine narrow gauge railroads.[6]
- Oliver Bury steps down from the General Manager position at the Great Northern Railway in England.
[edit] Births
[edit] Unknown date births
- W. Graham Claytor Jr., president of Amtrak 1982-1993 (died 1994).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Eli H. Janney, inventor of the knuckle coupler (born 1831).
[edit] References
- (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
- Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
- (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797.
- ^ "South Shore Railroad history". Chicago Post-Tribune. 2008-06-29. http://www.post-trib.com/news/1026442,SSHISTORY629.article. Retrieved 2008-06-30.[dead link]
- ^ a b Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- ^ Richardson, Matthew (2001). The Penguin Book of Firsts. New Delhi: Penguin Books India. p. 280. ISBN 0-14-302771-9.
- ^ Churella, Albert J. (1998). From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry. Princeton University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-691-02776-5.
- ^ Glatte, Wolfgang (1993). Deutsches Lok-Archiv: Diesellokomotiven (4. ed.). Berlin: Transpress. ISBN 3-344-70767-1.
- ^ Kohler, Gary; McChesney, Chris (2004). Narrow Gauge in the Sheepscot Valley, Volume IV. M2FQ Publications.
