1944 in rail transport

none February 2012 1943 1944 1945 1940 Events January events January 3: Torre del Bierzo rail disaster in Leon Province, Spain. About 100 are killed. January 28: A train of Allied prisoners of war on the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona in Italy is inadvertently bombed by United States Army Air Forces 320th Bombardment Group. About 450 are killed.The Bridge at Allerona http://bombedpowtrain.weebly.com/28-january-1944.html Janet Kinrade Dethick 2012-11-02 2013-02-22 https://archive.today/20130209074931/http://bombedpowtrain.weebly.com/28-january-1944.html February 9, 2013 dead mdy-all February events c. February: Charles Fairburn succeeds William Stanier as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway upon Stanier's retirement. March events March 3: Balvano train disaster, Balvano, Italy: A double-headed mixed train stalls in a tunnel. 521 are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning; five survive. 193 of the dead carrying no identification, most of them Black Marketeers, are buried in a mass grave at the site. March 19: The last steam locomotive purchased new by Southern Pacific Railroad, cab forward class AC-12 4-8-8-2 number 4294, enters service.Diebert Timothy S. Strapac Joseph A. Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Compendium Shade Tree Books 1987 0-930742-12-5 April events April 1: Government of India takes over the Madras & Southern Mahratta and South Indian Railways.http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm Saxena, R. P. Indian Railway History Time Line 2008 December 23, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092028/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm February 29, 2012 dead mdy-all June events June 6 (D-Day): Normandy landings destroy the narrow gauge Chemins de fer du Calvados.John Organ 2002 Northern France Narrow Gauge Middleton Press Midhurst 1-901706-75-3 July events July 6: Troop train crash near Jellico, Tennessee, United States: Passenger train derails due to excessive speed on defective track. 35 killed, 99 injured; all U.S. Army soldiers en route to deployment. July 26: Normandy landings: Four British War Department diesel shunters are shipped by landing craft tank from England.R. Tourret War Department Locomotives Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War, Book I Abingdon Tourret Publishing 1976 0-905878-00-0 23 September events September 8: Nickel Plate 765 is built by the Lima Locomotive Works. September 13: Fréjus Rail Tunnel blocked by retreating German forces. October events October 1: Government of India takes over the Bengal Nagpur Railway. October 16: The Baltimore & Ohio's last new steam locomotive #5594, Class T-3C rolls out of Mount Clare erecting shop in Baltimore. November events November 7: Election day accident in Puerto Rico: a passenger train derails at Aguadilla due to excessive speed on a downhill grade; 16 are killed, 50 injured. December events December: The Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery from Alco of Class FEF-3 4-8-4 #844, the road's last new steam locomotive.http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up844.shtml Steam Locomotive No. 844 Union Pacific January 14, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100120100948/http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up844.shtml January 20, 2010 dead Unknown date events United States builders begin deliveries of Russian locomotive class Ye 2-10-0s to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. More than two thousand will be built from now until 1947 to this design, which originated during World War I. Fred Gurley succeeds Edward Engel as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Births June births June 11: Michael R. Haverty, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1989–1995, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway 1995–2008.Vantuono, William C. January 2001 http://www.railwayage.com/jan01/railroader_2000.html Mike Haverty, Railroader of the Year March 25, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20041212212649/http://www.railwayage.com/jan01/railroader_2000.html December 12, 2004 dead mdy November births November 7: E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993–1998, Railroader of the Year 2002, president of Canadian National Railway 2003–2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012–2017, CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017 (died 2017). Deaths January deaths January 8: William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (born 1878). March deaths March 7: Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway (UK) 1923–1937 (born 1868).February 26, 1999 http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/engineers/southern/maunsell.htm Railway engineers – Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell February 10, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20041216075843/http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/engineers/southern/maunsell.htm December 16, 2004Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd 2003 Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 0-901461-22-9 March 21: Hugo Lentz, Austrian inventor of a valve gear for steam engines (born 1859). June deaths June 19: Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 (born 1855). uncollapsed References 30em