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1918 in rail transport
1919 in rail transport
1920 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1919.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

Events

4-car Tait train at Spring Vale Cemetery station, Melbourne

April events

April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.

May events

May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban railways in Melbourne, Australia, with first train from Flinders Street station to Sandringham and Essendon.

J.D. Spreckels drives the "golden spike" on the San Diego & Arizona Railway

November events

November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.^[1]^[2]

December events

December 1

First passenger train on San Diego & Arizona Railway

- The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony.^[1]^[2]
- The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.^[3]

Quebec Bridge

December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is 987 meters (3,238 ft) long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 meters (1,801 ft).^[4]

Unknown date events

Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.^[5]^[6]
The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for anti-trust reasons.^[7]
Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.

Helsinki station

Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).^[8]

Births

Deaths

April deaths

April 24 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (b. 1861).

August deaths

August 3 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (b. 1840).^[9]^[10]
August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (b. 1835).

October deaths

October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (b. 1837).

References

^ ^a ^b Hanft, Robert M. (1984). San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad. Glendale, California: Trans-Anglo Books. ISBN 0-87046-071-4.
^ ^a ^b Dodge, Richard V. (1960). Rails of the Silver Gate. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. ISBN 0-87095-019-3.
^ Railway Association of Canada (2007-10-23). "Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada". Press release. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/23/c7258.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
^ Pont de Québec timeline (in French)
^ "20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd". President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2004. http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/108/. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
^ "American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd". 2000. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_rbudd.html. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
^ "Fruit Growers Express Company Refrigerator Car No. 35832". Sacramento, California: California State Railroad Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5gWiE1wh5. Retrieved 2009-04-02. "The most successful private refrigerator car company was the Armour Car Lines, including its subsidiary, the Fruit Growers Express. Success led to downfall, for in 1919 the Federal Trade Commission ordered the sale of the produce hauling subsidiary for anti-trust reasons. A group of eastern and southern railroads formed a new Fruit Growers Express Company in 1920 to take over the operations. By 1926 FGE had expanded service into the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest through its partly owned cooperating subsidiaries, Western Fruit Express and Burlington Fruit Express."
^ Högström, Hilkka (1996). Helsingin rautatieasema / Helsinki railway station. Helsinki. ISBN 951-53-0533-0.
^ "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm. Retrieved 2005-08-15.
^ Fordyce, Jim (1999). "Samuel W. Fordyce biography". http://www.fordyce.org/genealogy/biographies/Biog_SamuelWFordyce.html. Retrieved 2005-08-15.

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