July 15 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 15.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 19th century
- 1894 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.[1]
[edit] 20th century
- 1914 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
- 1918 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens a new station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916.[2]
- 1923 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
- 1933 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
- 1936 – The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.
[edit] 21st century
- 2004 – Dennis H. Miller is promoted to president of the Iowa Interstate Railroad.
[edit] Births
- 1843 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888-1893, is born (d. 1919).[3]
[edit] Deaths
- 1976 - William C. Coleman, president of Monon Railroad, (b. 1901).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.
- ^ San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot. Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
- ^ (1887) The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age.
- ^ (August 9, 1976) "Obituary". Railway Age 177 (14): p 43.
