1907 in rail transport

1906, 1907, 1908

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1907.

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April 15 - William N. Page is named president of the newly formed Virginian Railway.

May 18 - Northwestern Elevated Railroad, the predecessor of the modern Chicago 'L' Brown Line, opens for service between the Loop and Lincoln Square.

June 26 - The Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad is formed from the merger of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad; the new railroad company is chartered to build the Hudson River tunnels that will connect the Pennsylvania Railroad to Pennsylvania Station in New York City.

August 29 - Due to faulty design, the cantilever bridge over the St. Lawrence River at Quebec City collapses while being built. Between 70 and 84 workers are killed. It will take 10 years to rebuild and complete the project.

October 1 - Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) begins operation with a fleet of 6,600 refrigerator cars.
October 1 - Seventeen private railroads in Japan are nationalized and merged to form Japan Railways.
October 27 - Union Station in Washington, DC, although still unfinished, opens.

December 14 - Northwestern Elevated Railroad in Chicago opens the extension to what is now the Brown Line's current terminal of Kimball.

The Deepwater Railway and the Tidewater Railway combine to form the Virginian Railway.
Stearns Manufacturing Company is reorganized as Heisler Locomotive Works.
The Apalachicola Northern Railroad runs its first train northward from Apalachicola, Florida.
E. H. Harriman removes Stuyvesant Fish from the presidency of the Illinois Central.
Pennsylvania Railroad builds its third experimental electric locomotive, number 10003, the forerunner of the PRR DD1 class of locomotives.