1914 in rail transport

none February 2012 1913 1914 1915 1910 Events January events January 1 – 1912 international convention agreeing the Berne gauge European standard loading gauge comes into effect. January 4 – New Michigan Central Station in Detroit formally inaugurated. March events March 17 – A celebration is held in honor of the first train to arrive on the newly constructed Kansas City Southern Railway line in Hot Springs, Arkansas.Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines https://web.archive.org/web/20060413155650/http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm April 13, 2006 . Retrieved March 17, 2006. March 21 – Henry Clay Hall is appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission filling the vacancy left by Charles A. Prouty's resignation. April events April 2 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia. thumb|Driving the last spike on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, April 7, 1914. April 7 – The last spike is driven (pictured) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Fort Fraser, British Columbia, 93 miles (150 km) west of Prince George, completing the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.March 17, 2006 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history Colin Churcher's Railway Pages April 7, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060424080243/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm April 24, 2006 dead April 30 – Osaka Electronic Railway Line, Osaka Uehonmachi to Nara route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of Kintetsu Nara Line).December 2016 May events May 17 – Canadian Northern Railway acquires Canadian Northern Ontario Railway.http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Colin Churcher's Railway Pages 2006-04-28 May 17, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm April 27, 2006 dead June events June 18 – A railway bridge collapse at Carrbridge in Scotland following a torrential thunderstorm kills 5 people. June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife travel from Ilidža over the 760 mm narrow gauge railway to the Marijin dvor station in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) on an official visit from which they will not return.Keith Chester Assassination at Sarajevo Narrow Gauge World 94 35–38 June 2014 Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this day at Sarajevo, the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople. June 29 – The maiden trip on the Portland–Lewiston Interurban is made when the car Arbutus carries an inspection trip from Lewiston to Portland, Maine.Transportation Grand Opening 11 O.R. Cummings May 1956 10 Connecticut Valley Chapter National Railway Historical Society http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=books_pubs June 29, 2015 July events July 7 – Regular scheduled service begins on the Portland–Lewiston Interurban in Maine. July 11 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.Baghdad Railway December 1, 2004 http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/History/CIOB July 7, 2005 July 15 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway. July 29 – Railway viaduct over Sava between Zemun and Belgrade is blown up. August events August 4 – British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure.Hamilton, J. A. B. Britain's Railways in World War I George Allen and Unwin London 1967 August 19 – Passenger trains of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway's Central Station in Toronto. October events October – The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Florida Central Railroad. October 13 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario. October 23 – Northwestern Pacific Railroad is completed connecting Humboldt County, California to the United States rail network.Stindt, Fred A. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Redwood Empire Route 3rd Fred A. Stindt Kelseyville, California 1978 ASIN: B0007F4A2M 50 December events December 20 – Tokyo Station in Japan opens. December 29 – San Francisco's Stockton Street Tunnel opens primarily to serve the F Stockton streetcar line. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Cityscape-How-the-Stockton-Tunnel-made-a-5970900.php Cityscape: How the Stockton Tunnel made a basement shine King John December 21, 2014 San Francisco Chronicle Unknown date events The railhead of the Central Line (Mittellandbahn) across German East Africa from the coast reaches Kigoma on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad simplifies its official name to New York Central. The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership. The United States government purchases the road and moves its headquarters to the location that will become Anchorage. Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved wigwag grade crossing signal. The first prototype of the Pennsylvania Railroad K4 Pacific steam locomotive class (PRR 1737) is built. Baldwin Locomotive Works build the first 2-8-8-8-2 triplex locomotive, Matt H. Shay, for the Erie Railroad. Births February births February 10 – Benjamin W. Heineman, president of Chicago and North Western Railway 1956–1972 (died 2012). December births December 16 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documents the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s (died 2001).O. Winston Link Museum O. Winston Link Biography http://www.linkmuseum.org/index-1.html February 4, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050119031017/http://www.linkmuseum.org/index-1.html January 19, 2005 dead Deaths January deaths January 21 – Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Scottish financier, promoter of the Canadian Pacific Railway (born 1820). March deaths March 12 – George Westinghouse, American inventor; developed the Westinghouse air brake (born 1846). April deaths April 26 – George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (born 1842). July deaths July – Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (born 1842).Indiana Historical Society Indiana Historical Society Melville E. Ingalls Papers, 1870-1907, Collection Guide http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/melville-e-ingalls-papers-1870-1907.pdf 2011-10-19 August 19, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120819115219/http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/melville-e-ingalls-papers-1870-1907.pdf dead August deaths August 3 - William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (born 1837).Pearson Education William Barstow Strong 2005 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0772575.html June 2, 2005 August 24 - Darius Miller, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1910–1914 (b. 1859).https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/24/101924320.pdf Darius Miller Dead New York Times August 24, 1914 November 30, 2013 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19140825&id=6JdRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IwoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4362,2860979 President Darius Miller of "Q" Railroad Dies Milwaukee Sentinel August 24, 1914 12 November 30, 2013July 2025 InternetArchiveBot yes November deaths November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (born 1832).The Soo The Soo Line Historical and Technical Society 29 3 The Wisconsin Central in Eau Claire 9–43 Easton, Larry E. Summer 2007 References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11, 2005. (July 28, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 16, 2005.