1901 in rail transport

none February 2012 1900 1901 1902 1900 Events January events January 3 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas.Beck, Wayne. Cotton Belt News 1957 http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway August 6, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20091018200123/http://geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html October 18, 2009 dead mdy February events February – The Canadian Locomotive Company is formed from the assets of the bankrupt Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company. February 2 – The body of Queen Victoria is conveyed by the London & South Western, London, Brighton & South Coast and Great Western Railways from Gosport via London to Windsor, England for her funeral.Keat Peter J. Goodbye to Victoria, the Last Queen Empress – the story of Queen Victoria's funeral train 2001 Oakwood Press Usk 978-0-85361-569-9 thumb|right|Glenfinnan Viaduct on the Mallaig Extension Railway March events March 1 – First section of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway opens to the public.The Wuppertal Suspension Railway 2009 Lübeck Schöning 978-3-89917-448-9 27 April events April 1 – The West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is opened throughout to Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.Thomas John John Thomas (author) The West Highland Railway 1965 David & Charles Dawlish 978-0-946537-22-8 April 1 – Atlantic Coast Line Railroad acquires the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in North Carolina. April 11 – The Ōu South Line in Japan opens between Yonezawa and Yamagata. May events May Frederick D. Underwood succeeds Eben B. Thomas as president of the Erie Railroad.http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents March 15, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html March 18, 2005 dead Gold Coast Government Railway opens from Sekondi on the coast to Tarkwa. May 27 – Sanyo Railroad Line, Kobe to Bakan (Shimonoseki Station renamed from June 1902) route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of JR Sanyo Line).:ja:山陽本線#歴史#年表#山陽鉄道 (Japanese language ) Retrieved January 13, 2017. June events June – First section of Gold Coast Railway (3 ft 6 in gauge) opens from Sekondi on the Gulf of Guinea to the gold mining district of Tarkwa. June 14 – The Atlantic City Railroad (predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) is incorporated from the merger of the Camden County Railroad, Ocean City Railroad and Seacoast Railroad. June 24 – The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) is formed through the merger of eight smaller American steam locomotive manufacturers. July events July 25 – The Hull Electric Railway officially begins regular service over the Interprovincial Bridge between Ottawa and Aylmer, Quebec.December 3, 2004 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history July 22, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050816215418/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm August 16, 2005 dead mdy-all August events August 5 – Queenscliff Junction, in Victoria, Australia, is closed.http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64 History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway August 4, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20120410210717/http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64 April 10, 2012 September events thumb|Passengers and crew gather for a group photo on the first run of the Grand Canyon Railway. September 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), having purchased the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and renamed it to the Grand Canyon Railway, begins to operate a passenger train service over its new subsidiary railroad between Williams, Arizona, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon as a destination for ATSF's customers.Bianchi Curt May 1995 By steam to the Grand Canyon Trains 38–45 October events October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 Hz frequency on the Royal Prussian Military Railway.Alistair F. Nisbet Express Electric Railways BackTrack 35 2021 297–301 October 13 – The London and South Western Railway in England completes experimental installation at Grateley on its West of England main line of automatic semaphore signals controlled by track circuits and pneumatics, the first such scheme in the United Kingdom.Pryer G. A. A pictorial record of Southern Signals 1977 Oxford Publishing Co Oxford 978-0-902888-81-4Kichenside Geoffrey Williams, Alan Two centuries of Railway Signalling 1998 Oxford Publishing Co Sparkford 978-0-86093-541-4Left Sarah Key dates in Britain's railway history The Guardian Unlimited January 15, 2002 https://www.theguardian.com/transport/Story/0,2763,633951,00.html 7 July 2007 November events November – Official start of traffic on Chinese Eastern Railway. November 7 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas.Missouri Pacific Historical Society 2005 http://mopac.org/history_stlims.asp St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS) November 7, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20051001181523/http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp October 1, 2005 dead mdy November 12 – The Pacific Electric Railway is incorporated in California.Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars Walker Jim 2006 Arcadia Publishing 7 978-0-7385-4688-9 December events December 2 – The Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway is incorporated.http://www.post-trib.com/news/1026442,SSHISTORY629.article South Shore Railroad history June 29, 2008 Chicago Post-Tribune June 30, 2008September 2016 medicmedic December 3 – The 3.5 km on first part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is opened.Aspenberg Nils Carl På meterspor i Nidaros 1995 Baneforlaget Oslo 6 December 12 – Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt announces the railroad's plan to enter New York City – to tunnel under the Hudson River and to build a grand station on the West Side of Manhattan, a station that would become Pennsylvania Station. December 17 – The first section of the metre gauge Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway in Switzerland is opened from Montreux to Les Avants (10.9 km mi 1 on or). December 21 – "Last spike" ceremony for the Uganda Railway (metre gauge), completed from Mombasa to Port Florence (Kisumu) on the shore of Lake Victoria.Miller Charles Charles Miller (author) The Lunatic Express 1971 Macdonald New York 978-0-02-584940-2 December 24 – The New Zealand Government Railways become the first major railway to place a 4-6-2 steam locomotive into service, having ordered thirteen Q class from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 978-0-85112-707-1Q Class 4–6-2 Register TrainWeb http://www.trainweb.org/nzsteam/q462_reg.htm June 6, 2010 Unknown date events E. H. Harriman succeeds Charles Melville Hays as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Jacob S. Rogers, still the primary shareholder, closes Rogers Locomotive Company, but then reopens the company as Rogers Locomotive Works after the ALCO merger. American Car and Foundry (ACF) acquires Jackson and Sharp Company and Common Sense Bolster Company. George Frederick Baer becomes president of Reading Company. The Lake Shore Electric Railway is formed through the merger of the Lorain and Cleveland Railway, Sandusky and Interurban Railway and Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway. Births December births December 11 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950–1966, is born (died 1969). Deaths January deaths January 6 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator car operators (born 1832). February deaths February 9 – Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), who founded the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (born 1835). February 18 – Egide Walschaerts, Belgian inventor of a steam locomotive valve gear (born 1820).John Marshall John Marshall (railway historian) Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 978-0-901461-22-3 April deaths April 13 – Edward Watkin, Chairman of several English railway companies, most notably the South Eastern Railway and the Great Central Railway (born 1819). Unknown date deaths Jacob S. Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers and second president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. References 30em