1906 in rail transport

thumb | right | Zamboanga Pier with railroad in 1906none 1905 1906 1907 1900 Events January events January 3 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad. January 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway fully acquires its subsidiary Southern California Railway.Duke Donald Kistler Stan 1969 1963 Santa Fe...Steel Rails through California https://archive.org/details/santafesteelrail0000duke Golden West Books San Marino, California 0-87095-009-6 45–46Serpico, Philip C. Santa Fé Route to the Pacific 1988 Omni Publications Palmdale, California 0-88418-000-X 34 January 27 – Rail line completed to the Red Sea at Port Sudan from Atbara. February events February 2 – The Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company is formed. March events March 10 – The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway opens in London.Horne Mike 2001 The Bakerloo Line: An Illustrated History Capital Transport 1-85414-248-8 17 April events April – The Great Western Railway of England turns out the prototype of its 4-cylinder GWR 4000 Class steam locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward, from its Swindon Works. April 18 – The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake strikes, damaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's headquarters building and destroying the mansions of the now-deceased Big Four. Also destroyed are many cable car routes, which will be replaced with electric streetcars. April 19 – Lygten Station opens in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the terminus of the Copenhagen–Slangerup Railway. May events May 8 – A special train carrying E.H. Harriman makes a run from Oakland CA to New York in 761 hours and 27 minutes. This record will stand until October 1934, when it will be broken by Union Pacific Streamliner M-10000. May 19 – The Simplon Tunnel between Italy and Switzerland, the world's longest tunnel until 1979, opens to rail traffic. July events July 1 (1:57 am) – 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen die as the result of the 1906 Salisbury rail crash on the London and South Western Railway of England when an express train passes through Salisbury railway station at excessive speed.Pattenden, Norman Salisbury, 1906: an answer to the enigma? Swindon South Western Circle 2001 0-9503741-6-4 July 7 – Completion of the Tauern Tunnel (8.5 km mi on) in Austria.October 2016 July 22 – The State Street Line, Chicago's last cable car route, ends operations. August events August 1 – The Green Bay and Western acquires a majority interest in the Ahnapee and Western Railway in Wisconsin. September events September 8 – Ottawa's Bank Street subway is opened as streetcar number 253 of the Ottawa Electric Railway traverses the tunnel. September 19 – 14 die as a result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham railway station at excessive speed.L. T. C. Rolt Red for Danger: a history of railway accidents and railway safety precautions London Bodley Head 1955 L. T. C. Rolt September 21 – A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stays at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and becomes the only fatality. The train's passengers later erect a monument in the engineer's honor. October events October 1 – Karawanks Tunnel is opened to provide a through route between Klagenfurt and Trieste in Austria-Hungary. October 10 – Valdresbanen is completed from Oslo to Fagernes, Norway. November events November 13 – Shinpei Goto begins his term as the first president of South Manchuria Railway. November 12 – Dunedin railway station in New Zealand is officially opened. November 29 – Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway (US), is killed in a railroad accident; he will be succeeded by William Finley. November – The last locomotive built by the Portland Company is completed for the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad.Two Feet to the Lakes Jones, Robert C. Pacific Fast Mail 1993 0-915713-26-8 December events December 2 - Construction begins on Santa Fe's Rocky Ford, Colorado, station; the station is completed and occupied by the end of March 1907. December 7 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.https://books.google.com/books?id=evIdAQAAMAAJ Moody's Manual of Investments: Railroad Securities 84 1931 Moody's Investors Service December 14 – John D. Spreckels announces he will form the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company and build a 148-mile (238-kilometre) line between San Diego and El Centro, California. Spreckels has an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad to silently fund the project. December 15 The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens in London.Wolmar, Christian Christian Wolmar The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever Atlantic Books London 1-84354-023-1 2004 2005 181 The SEPTA trolley subway opens as Route 34 is routed underground in Philadelphia.Springirth Kenneth C. Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys Sep 29, 2008 Arcadia Publishing 978-0-7385-5692-5 91 https://books.google.com/books?id=sZCovswOeIwC&q=subway&pg=PA46 17 October 2020 December 28 Elliot Junction rail accident in Scotland: 22 killed in a collision during a blizzard. After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McRea. December 30 – A train wreck at Terra Cotta near modern-day Fort Totten in Washington, D.C., kills 52; the accident leads to the Interstate Commerce Commission banning future wooden body passenger car construction. Unknown date events Prussian S 6 Class 4-4-0 steam locomotives introduced; 584 are eventually built to this design. Births births in 1906 Category:1906 births Deaths June deaths June 4 – Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (born 1836).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2003 Railway & Canal Historical Society Oxford 0-901461-22-9 December deaths December 28 – Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (born 1839). Notes References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages December 3, 2004 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history September 8, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050816215418/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm 2005-08-16 Colin Churcher's Railway Pages September 7, 2005 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history September 21, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm April 27, 2006 Dodge, Richard V. 1975 1960 Rails of the Silver Gate Golden West Books San Marino, CA 0-87095-019-3 Hanft, Robert M. 1984 San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad Trans-Anglo Books Glendale, CA 0-87046-071-4 http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company August 6, 2005 s363.com https://web.archive.org/web/20131215142554/http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html December 15, 2013 http://pages.ivillage.com/generaljim1/theerielackawannalimited/id19.html Norfolk Southern Railway February 22, 2005 pages.ivillage.com https://web.archive.org/web/20050206144932/http://pages.ivillage.com/generaljim1/theerielackawannalimited/id19.html February 6, 2005 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2005 http://www.rpi.edu/about/alumni/inductees/cassatt.html RPI: Alumni hall of fame: Alexander J. Cassatt February 22, 2005 Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society 2005 http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm This Month in Railroad History: July July 18, 2005 National Historical Railroad Society https://web.archive.org/web/20070930160712/http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm September 30, 2007 Spencer D. K. http://www.atsfry.com/dkspencer/rockford.htm The History of the Rocky Ford, Colorado Depot December 2, 2005 atsfry.com https://web.archive.org/web/20081212040708/http://www.atsfry.com/dkspencer/rockford.htm December 12, 2008 Thompson, Anthony W. 1992 Pacific Fruit Express Signature Press Wilton, CA 1-930013-03-5 etal White John H. Jr. Spring 1986 America's most noteworthy railroaders Railroad History Railway and Locomotive Historical Society 154 9–15