1900 in rail transport

none 1899 1900 1901 1900 thumb|right|alt=1900 in rail transport|Railway workers in Sweden, 1900 Events January events January 1 – Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway, Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railway. The first interurban car from Greenwood, Indiana to enter the city of Indianapolis arrived at the terminal of the company's line at Washington and Illinois Streets.Blackburn Glen A. Interurban Railroads of Indiana https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indiana_Magazine_of_History/toU1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA247 26 August 2025 Indiana Magazine of History XX 3 September 1924 247–251 Google Books y Over The Greenwood Line https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news-over-the-greenwood/180188056/ 1 September 2025 The Indianapolis News January 2, 1900 Indianapolis, Indiana 5 Newspapers.com January 9 – The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum. February events February 12 – The Escanaba and Lake Superior Railway is reorganized through bankruptcy proceedings as the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad.Duchaine William December 27, 1950 http://www.elsrr.com/ELS%20History.htm History of Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad February 12, 2006 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060216223928/http://www.elsrr.com/ELS%20History.htm February 16, 2006 February 27 – The Nehru Setu railway bridge opens, becoming the longest bridge in India. https://books.google.com/books?id=iftaR6DVxIAC&q=Son+Bridge+Dehri&pg=PA166 Bihar and Orissa Gazetteers Sahabad L.S.S. O’malley 166 Dehri 9788172681227 Google Books 25 June 2011Sir John Houlton Bihar, the Heart of India https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100326 47–48 Orient Longmans 1949 March events March 17 – Great Eastern Railway of England introduces the first Class S46 Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 steam locomotive from its Stratford Works.Cecil J. Allen The Great Eastern Railway London Ian Allan 1955 March 24 – Mayor of New York Robert A. Van Wyck turns the first shovel of dirt in groundbreaking ceremonies for the first subway line in the city.Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm This Month in Railroad History: March March 24, 2006 March 30 – The Cape Breton Electric Tramway and Power Company in Nova Scotia, Canada, is incorporated.Smith Ivan http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/SignificantDatesInNSRailwayHistoryPart3.html Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History (1900–1949) The Railways of Canada Archives 1998 March 29, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060524183007/http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/SignificantDatesInNSRailwayHistoryPart3.html 2006-05-24 dead March 30 – The Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad is reorganized as the Ohio Midland Railroad.((Morris, J. C., Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Ohio)) http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1900.html Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio December 31, 1902 March 29, 2006 April events April 1 – Newtown Tram Depot is opened in Sydney. April 2 – Kreis Westhavelland opens as a 750mm on gauge railway connecting Rathenow, Senzke and Paulinenaue, in the German state of Brandenburg. April 26 – A defective chimney on a house in Hull, Ontario starts the Great Hull–Ottawa fire; among the items destroyed are nearly 200 freight cars and the Canadian Pacific Railway station and freight house. The resulting shortage of lumber for reconstruction forces Canada Atlantic Railway to temporarily halt production on new railroad cars at the company shops in Ottawa.http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Colin Churcher's Railway Pages April 23, 2006 April 26, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm 27 April 2006 dead April 30 – Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, and earns a spot in American folklore. May events May – The Santa Fe and San Joaquin Valley Railway begins operations between Bakersfield and San Francisco.Santa Fe Railroad 1945 Along Your Way Rand McNally Chicago May 24 – Nottingham Victoria railway station opens in Nottingham, England. May 28 – The Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans opens its Gare d'Orsay station in Paris, the world's first electrified urban terminal station. May 31 – The Northwestern Elevated Railway, built by infamous traction magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes, begins operations between the Loop in downtown Chicago and Wilson and Broadway Avenues in Uptown on the North Side. June events June 22 – A train at the Grand Falls in New Brunswick, Canada, falls through the bridge into the Saint John River. June 27 – Official opening of the Central London Railway, core of the Central line of the London Underground, the third deep-level electrified "tube" railway in the city.July 2025 July events July 1 Completion of a dual-gauge connection unifies Normandy's narrow-gauge Chemins de fer du Calvados.John Organ 2002 Northern France Narrow Gauge Middleton Press Midhurst 1-901706-75-3 Great Indian Peninsula Railway property purchased by Government of India.http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm Saxena R.P. Indian Railway History Time Line 2008 2009-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092028/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm 2012-02-29 dead The Boston and Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary of the New York Central. July 19 – The first section of the Paris Métro opens. July 29 – Construction is completed on the narrow-gauge White Pass and Yukon Route between Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, and Skagway, Alaska, United States.Cy Martin 1974 Gold Rush Narrow Gauge https://archive.org/details/goldrushnarrowga0000mart registration 44 Trans-Anglo Books Corona del Mar, California 0-87046-026-9 July 30 – The Central London Railway opens to the public between Shepherd's Bush and Bank.Day John R Reed John 1963 2008 The Story of London's Underground Capital Transport 978-1-85414-316-7 56 August events August 6 – An Act is passed to authorize the absorption of the Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway in Scotland by the North British Railway via a stock transfer.Andrew M. Hajducki The North Berwick and Gullane Branch Lines The Oakwood Press Headington 1992 0-85361-427-X August 14 – Charles Melville Hays succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death. August 15 – Regular service begins between Skagway, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon, on the White Pass and Yukon Route.April 3, 2005 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history August 15, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060427113227/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm April 27, 2006 September events September 22 – Harry C. Grant and Joshua Lionel Cowen file incorporation papers in New York creating toy train manufacturer Lionel. December events December 18 – The Upper Ferntree Gully – Gembrook narrow-gauge railway in Victoria, Australia, opens for traffic. It is now preserved, operating as the Puffing Billy Railway. December 20 – Great Northern Railway (U.S.) opens first Cascade Tunnel (2.6 mi km on).Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X December 31 – Southern Pacific completes construction of the Coast Line from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, eliminating the need to operate through the San Joaquin Valley. The line is presently (2007) owned by Union Pacific, and is the operation line of Amtrak's (formerly Southern Pacific's) Coast Starlight. Unknown date events The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad is renamed Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway gains control of Colorado Midland and begins operating it as a subsidiary railroad. Accidents uncollapsed Births January births January 3 – C. L. Dellums, cofounder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (died 1989) January 15 – Rogers E. M. Whitaker ("E. M. Frimbo"), writer on rail travel (died 1981) Deaths March deaths March 29 – Cyrus K. Holliday, co-founder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (b. 1826). April deaths April 20 – Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (born 1814).http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst394.html Overview of Andrew Barclay February 9, 2005Wear Russell The Locomotive Builders of Kilmarnock 1977 Industrial Railway Society 0-902888-81-1 August deaths August 13 – Collis P. Huntington, a member of the Big Four group of financiers in California (born 1821) November deaths November 12 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1881–1884, dies (born 1835). Unknown date deaths Robert S. Hughes, president of Rogers Locomotive Company 1893–1900. References