This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1919.
Events
editMarch events
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- March 5 – Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).[1][2]
April events
edit- April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.
May events
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- May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban railways in Melbourne, Australia, with first train from Flinders Street station to Sandringham and Essendon.
September events
edit- September 27–October 6 – Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.[3]
October events
edit- October 17 – Madrid Metro opens.
- October 20 – The metre-gauge railway from La Paz (Bolivia) to Cumbre opens.[4]
November events
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- November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.[5][6]
December events
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- December 1
- The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony.[5][6]
- The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.[7]
- 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).[8]
- December 20 – Onawa train wreck: A collision on the International Railway of Maine kills 23 people.[9]
Unknown date events
edit- Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.[10][11]
- The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for antitrust reasons.[12]
- Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.
Births
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editFebruary deaths
edit- February 23 - Guy Calthrop, general manager of London and North Western Railway, previously of Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (born 1870).
April deaths
edit- April 24 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (born 1861).
August deaths
edit- 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 (born 1840).[13][14]
- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (born 1835).
October deaths
edit- October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (born 1837).
References
edit- ^ Högström, Hilkka (1996). Helsingin rautatieasema / Helsinki railway station. Helsinki. ISBN 951-53-0533-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Jokinen, Teppo (1998). "Eliel Saarinen – Main Station". In Thiel-Siling, Sabine (ed.). Icons of Architecture – the 20th century (2nd ed.). Munich: Prestel. pp. 24–5. ISBN 3791319493.
- ^ Wells, Jeffrey (2010). "The Nine Days' Strike of 1919". Backtrack. 24: 22–7, 120–4.
- ^ Becker, Clarence O. (1920). "The La Paz–Yungas Railway, Bolivia". Locomotive Magazine. 26: 273–6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada" (Press release). Railway Association of Canada. 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ Pont de Québec timeline Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ^ Haine, Edgar A. (1993). Railroad Wrecks. Associated University Presses. p. 148. ISBN 0-8453-4844-2.
- ^ "20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd". President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-02-05. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
- ^ "American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd". PBS. 2000. Archived from the original on 2005-03-09. Retrieved 2005-02-22.
- ^ "Fruit Growers Express Company Refrigerator Car No. 35832". Sacramento, California: California State Railroad Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. 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 antitrust 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.
- ^ "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2005-08-15.
- ^ Fordyce, Jim (1999). "Samuel W. Fordyce biography". Retrieved 2005-08-15.