1919 in rail transport

none 1918 1919 1920 1910 Events March events left|200px|thumb|Helsinki station March 5 – Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).Helsingin rautatieasema / Helsinki railway station Hilkka Högström Helsinki 1996 951-53-0533-0Jokinen Teppo Thiel-Siling, Sabine Icons of Architecture – the 20th century 2nd 1998 Prestel Munich 3791319493 24–5 Eliel Saarinen – Main Station registration https://archive.org/details/iconsofarchitect00thie/page/24 April events April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway. May events thumb|right|4-car Tait train at Spring Vale Cemetery station, Melbourne May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban railways in Melbourne, Australia, with first train from Flinders Street station to Sandringham and Essendon. September events September 27–October 6 – Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.Jeffrey Wells The Nine Days' Strike of 1919 Backtrack 24 2010 22–7, 120–4 October events October 17 – Madrid Metro opens. October 20 – The metre-gauge railway from La Paz (Bolivia) to Cumbre opens.Clarence O. Becker The La Paz–Yungas Railway, Bolivia Locomotive Magazine 26 1920 273–6 November events thumb|left|J.D. Spreckels drives the "golden spike" on the San Diego & Arizona Railway November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.Hanft, Robert M. 1984 San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad Trans-Anglo Books Glendale, California 0-87046-071-4Dodge, Richard V. 1975 1960 Rails of the Silver Gate Golden West Books San Marino, California 0-87095-019-3 December events thumb|right|First passenger train on San Diego & Arizona Railway December 1 The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony. The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/23/c7258.html Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada 2007-10-23 2007-10-23 Railway Association of Canada 2011-06-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20110609200746/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/23/c7258.html dead left|200px|thumb|Quebec Bridge December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is 987 m ft us long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 m ft us.Pont de Québec timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20070930053819/http://www.pontdequebec.com/page8pont.html 2007-09-30 (in French) December 20 – Onawa train wreck: A collision on the International Railway of Maine kills 23 people.Railroad Wrecks Edgar A. Haine 148 1993 Associated University Presses 0-8453-4844-2 Unknown date events Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.President and Fellows of Harvard College 2004 http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/108/ 20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd 2005-02-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20050205103522/http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/108/ 2005-02-05 dead2000 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_rbudd.html American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd PBS 2005-02-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20050309160358/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_rbudd.html 2005-03-09 dead The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for antitrust reasons.http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=185 Fruit Growers Express Company Refrigerator Car No. 35832 2009-04-02 Sacramento, California California State Railroad Museum Foundation https://web.archive.org/web/20090412083554/http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=185 2009-04-12 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 antitrust 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. dead Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production. Births births in 1919 Category:1919 births Deaths February deaths February 23 - Guy Calthrop, general manager of London and North Western Railway, previously of Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (born 1870). 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 (born 1861). 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 (born 1840).Kansas City Southern Historical Society http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm The Kansas City Southern Lines 2005-08-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20050828172330/http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm 2005-08-28 liveFordyce, Jim 1999 http://www.fordyce.org/genealogy/biographies/Biog_SamuelWFordyce.html Samuel W. Fordyce biography 2005-08-15 August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (born 1835). October deaths October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (born 1837). References