1922 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1922.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 17 – The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.[1]
[edit] July events
- July 1 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board. Continues until September 1.[2]
[edit] August events
- August 31 – H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio.
[edit] October events
- October – International Union of Railways (UIC) established in Paris to promote co-operation and standardisation.[3]
[edit] November events
- The first Willamette locomotive is built for Coos Bay Lumber Company of Marshfield, Oregon.[4]
- July 26 – The Drammen Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo West Station and Brakerøya.[5]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad).
- Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
- George Hughes succeeds H. P. M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 22 – Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (died 2003)
[edit] July births
- July 20 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak.
[edit] Unknown date births
- Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway (died 1993).
[edit] Deaths
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[edit] References
- ^ Beck, Wayne (1957). "The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway". Archived from the original on 2009-10-18. http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1255839150227804. Retrieved 2006-05-17.
- ^ Davis, Colin J. (1977). Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06612-X.
- ^ Anastasiadou, Irene (2005). "International Railway Organization in 19th and 20th century Europe". Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20071020165038/http://www.tie-project.nl/publications/pdf/wd+9+Anastasiadou.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ Koch, Michael (1971). The Shay Locomotive Titan of the Timber. The World Press. p. 467.
- ^ "Railway Statistics 2008" (pdf). Norwegian National Rail Administration. 2009. p. 34. http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
