1942 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1942.
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[edit] Events
[edit] April events
- Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
[edit] May events
- May 1 - The last pre-war streamliner, the Illinois Central Railroad's refurbished Panama Limited, is put into service.
[edit] June events
- June 13 - Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City.
[edit] July events
- July 5 - The multiple unit passenger trainsets used by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad on the Prospector between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard locomotives and unpowered passenger cars.
- July 11 - A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.[1]
[edit] August events
- August 8 - The Mumbai Rajdhani passenger train, one of many Rajdhani Express trains, is inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai, India.
[edit] September events
- September 8 - "Unspiking" ceremony at Promontory Summit as the original Central Pacific/Union Pacific line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout the United States.
[edit] December events
- December 27 - Almonte, Ontario, Canada: Thirty-six people are killed and over 200 injured when a passenger train running late was struck from behind by a troop train.[2]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Samuel Hopkins Adams publishes his novel The Harvey Girls commemorating the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that served passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- D'Alton Cory Coleman succeeds Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway
[edit] References
- ^ IR History: Part - III (1900 - 1947). Indian Railways Fan Club. Retrieved on July 7, 2005.
- ^ Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005). Retrieved on December 27, 2005.
