1936 in rail transport

none 1935 1936 1937 1930 Events January events January 1 – Hebikubo Station 蛇窪駅, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, is renamed to Togoshi-kōen Station 戸越公園駅 Togoshi-kōen eki. Société des Chemins de fer vicinaux du Mayumbe, the company that built and operated the Mayumbe line beginning in 1898, is merged with the Office des Transports Coloniaux (OTRACO).https://web.archive.org/web/20101204151247/http://www.bck-kdl.be/compagnies.htm http://www.bck-kdl.be/compagnies.htm 4 December 2010 BCK - KDL - Le site des chemins de fer du Katanga January 13 – Première of British documentary film Night Mail made by the GPO Film Unit.Blake Morrison Blake Morrison Stamp of excellence https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/dec/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview10 The Guardian 2007-12-01 2010-07-08Night Mail http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Night-Mail Britmovie.co.uk 2010-07-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20091203114844/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Night-Mail 2009-12-03 deadNight Mail (1936) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/530415/ screenonline BFI 2010-07-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20100604073615/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/530415/ 4 June 2010 live January 29 – The Sørland Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Kongsberg and Hjuksebø.http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ Railway Statistics 2008 Norwegian National Rail Administration 2009 pdf 28 April 2010 34 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120302040853/http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ 2 March 2012 March events March 20 – The 1936 flood ends train service on the Maine Central Railroad Rangeley branch north of Rumford, Maine.The Best of Maine Railroads Johnson Ron Portland Litho 1985 111 March 25 – The 200 in m on mirror blank for the Palomar Observatory begins its cross-country trip aboard a special railroad car. May events May 7 – The Bratsberg Line in Norway takes electric traction into use. May 11 – Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's BR 05 class locomotive number 05 002 sets the world's speed record for steam locomotives at 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on a run between Hamburg and Berlin. May 12 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. May 15 – The first City of Los Angeles passenger train makes its debut, using the streamliner trainset M-10002, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. May 17 – Illinois Central’s streamliner Green Diamond makes its debut, running between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. May 20 – The first diesel locomotive rolls out of EMC’s LaGrange plant in McCook, Illinois: a 100-ton, 600 hp switcher built for the Santa Fe Railroad. May – Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the first of the M-10003-6 streamliner power cars. June events June 14 – The M-10004 streamliner trainset enters service on the City of San Francisco passenger train. June 18 – The first City of Denver passenger train makes its debut running from Chicago, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. July events July 15 – The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. August events August 1 – The New Haven Railroad tests a new streamliner: a two-car Besler steam motor train. September events September 13 – Last regular passenger trains operate on Ashover Light Railway, the last steam-worked public passenger services on a narrow gauge railway in England. September 18 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) near Saint-Télesphore, Quebec, Canada. October events October – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Sam Houston Zephyr passenger train. thumb|October – Special nonstop Chicago–Denver run in advance of introducing California Zephyr service October 23 – One of the new ten-car Denver Zephyr trainsets makes a special run nonstop from Chicago to Denver, breaking the 1934 speed record of the Pioneer Zephyr between the two cities.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32026638/chicago-tribune/ Denver Zephyr To Try For New Speed Record Philip Thompson Chicago Tribune October 12, 1936 27 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94273196/the-daily-sentinel/ Super Zephyr Breaks Mark Associated Press The Daily Sentinel Grand Junction, Colorado October 24, 1936 1 Newspapers.com Dunn John 2008 Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering. Volume 2, 1955-1966 72Schafer Mike Joe Welsh 1997 Classic American Streamliners 19 MBI Publishing Osceola, Wisconsin 0-7603-0377-0https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94272045/detroit-free-press/ New Burlington Streamliner Sets Thousand-Mile Mark Detroit Free Press October 25, 1936 19 Newspapers.com November events November 8 – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Denver Zephyr passenger train. December events December 9 – The Østfold Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo East Station and Ljan. December 18 – The Twin Cities Zephyr, an articulated trainset, is placed into service between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. December 20 – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Ozark State Zephyr passenger train. Unknown date events Illinois Central's Illinois Central 121 trainset is built by Pullman-Standard . Bruce Church, T. R. Merrill, Gene Harden and Ken Nutting form the Growers Ice Company to ship bulk carloads of lettuce by rail from Salinas, California Southern Railway (Great Britain) signs exclusive 10-year contract with English Electric for the supply of traction equipment for its electric multiple units. This will be twice renewed and 5,500 EE507 traction motors will be supplied under it.Roger Ford Roger Ford (journalist) http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ca14/ALYCIDON%20RAIL/Informed%20Sources%20Primer.htm Informed Sources Primer Alycidon Rail 2010-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110622052411/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ca14/ALYCIDON%20RAIL/Informed%20Sources%20Primer.htm 2011-06-22 dead Accidents uncollapsed Births January 12 – William McAlpine, British businessman and railway enthusiast (died 2018). Deaths June deaths June 8 – Alfred de Glehn, English-born French designer of steam locomotives (born 1848). November deaths November 9 – Henry Clay Hall, American commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917-1928 (born 1860). November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Mantis, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (born 1879). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages August 16, 2005 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060829044454/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm 2006-08-29 Significant dates in Canadian railway history September 18, 2005