1922 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1922.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 17 - The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.[1]
[edit] July events
- July 1 - The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board.
[edit] August events
- August 31 - H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio
[edit] Unknown date events
- The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad).
- The first Willamette locomotive is built.
- Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
- George Hughes succeeds H.P.M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 22 - Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (d. 2003)
[edit] July births
- July 20 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak.
[edit] Unknown date births
- Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway (d. 1993).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Beck, Wayne (1957). The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway. Retrieved on May 17, 2006.
