1900 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1900.
, 1900,
Years in rail transport
1900 in rail transport
Contents
Events
January events
- January 1 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company, Detriot, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.
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), [History of Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad]. Retrieved February 12 2006.
March events
- 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, [This Month in Railroad History: March]. Retrieved March 24 2006.
- March 30 - The Cape Breton Electric Tramway and Power Company in Nova Scotia, Canada, is incorporated.
- March 30 - The Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad is reorganized as the Ohio Midland Railroad.
April events
- April 24 - Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, and earns a spot in American folklore.
- April 26 - A defective chimney on a house in Hull starts the Great Hull-Ottawa fire (pictured); 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.
May events
- May - The Santa Fe and San Joaquin Valley Railway begins operations between Bakersfield and San Francisco, California.Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
July events
- July 19 - The first section of the Paris Métro opens.
August events
- August 14 - Charles Hayes 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 Railway.(April 3 2005), [Significant dates in Canadian railway history]. Retrieved August 15 2005.
September events
- September 22 - Harry C. Grant and Joshua Lionel Cowen file incorporation papers in New York creating Lionel Trains.
Unknown date events
- The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad is renamed Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.
- The Boston and Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary railroad of the New York Central.
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway gains control of Colorado Midland and begins operating it as a subsidiary railroad.
Births
January births
- January 3 - C.L. Dellums, cofounder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (d. 1989)
Deaths
August deaths
- August 13 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1821)
Unknown date deaths
- Andrew Barclay, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1814).[Overview of Andrew Barclay]. Retrieved February 9 2005.
- Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (b. 1826).
- Robert S. Hughes, president of Rogers Locomotive Company 1893–1900.
- Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railroad (b. 1835).
References
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