1919 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1919.
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[edit] Events
[edit] April events
- April 12 - Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.
[edit] November events
- November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.[1][2]
[edit] December events
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- The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony.[1][2]
- The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.[3]
- December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is 987 meters (3,238 ft) long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 meters (1,801 ft).[4]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.[5][6]
- The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for anti-trust reasons.[7]
- Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.
- Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).[8]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] April deaths
- April 24 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (b. 1861).
[edit] August deaths
- August 3 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (b. 1840).[9][10]
- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (b. 1835).
[edit] October deaths
- October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (b. 1837).
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hanft, Robert M. (1984). San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad. Glendale, California: Trans-Anglo Books. ISBN 0-87046-071-4.
- ^ a b Dodge, Richard V. (1960). Rails of the Silver Gate. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. ISBN 0-87095-019-3.
- ^ Railway Association of Canada (2007-10-23). Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada. Press release. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/23/c7258.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ Pont de Québec timeline (in French)
- ^ "20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd". President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2004. http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/108/. Retrieved on 2005-02-22.
- ^ "American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd". 2000. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_rbudd.html. Retrieved on 2005-02-22.
- ^ "Fruit Growers Express Company Refrigerator Car No. 35832". Sacramento, California: California State Railroad Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5gWiE1wh5. Retrieved on 2009-04-02. "The most successful private refrigerator car company was the Armour Car Lines, including its subsidiary, the Fruit Growers Express. Success led to downfall, for in 1919 the Federal Trade Commission ordered the sale of the produce hauling subsidiary for anti-trust reasons. A group of eastern and southern railroads formed a new Fruit Growers Express Company in 1920 to take over the operations. By 1926 FGE had expanded service into the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest through its partly owned cooperating subsidiaries, Western Fruit Express and Burlington Fruit Express."
- ^ Högström, Hilkka (1996). Helsingin rautatieasema / Helsinki railway station. Helsinki. ISBN 951-53-0533-0.
- ^ "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm. Retrieved on 2005-08-15.
- ^ Fordyce, Jim (1999). "Samuel W. Fordyce biography". http://www.fordyce.org/genealogy/biographies/Biog_SamuelWFordyce.html. Retrieved on 2005-08-15.
