1923 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1923.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 March events 1.3 July events 1.4 September events 1.5 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 3.1 April deaths 3.2 May deaths 3.3 October deaths 3.4 December deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 30 - The Canadian National Railway (CN) absorbs the Grand Trunk Railway and spins off the portion of the Grand Trunk within the United States to form the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW); CN operates GTW as a subsidiary railroad.

[edit] March events

• March 10 - Norfolk and Western Railroad takes delivery of its first Y3a class 2-8-8-2 steam locomotive from ALCO.^[1][2]

[edit] July events

• July 15 - United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
• July 18 - Fruit Growers Express (FGE) and the Great Northern Railway form the Western Fruit Express (WFE) in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the west.

[edit] September events

• September 27 - Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history. [1]

[edit] Unknown date events

• The Interstate Commerce Commission allows the Southern Pacific Railroad's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that the control is in the public's interest.
• George Hughes succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway
• The city of Glasgow, Scotland takes over operations of the Glasgow Subway.
• The Munising, Marquette and South Eastern Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway merge to form the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad.

[edit] Births

[edit] Unknown date births

• Robert R. Dowty, construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (d. 2004).
• Margaret Landry Moore, "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger trains (d. 2005). [2]
• Frank Turpin, CEO of Alaska Railroad, 1985–1993 (d. 2005). [3]

[edit] Deaths

[edit] April deaths

• April 10 - Stuyvesant Fish, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1887-1907 (b. 1851).

[edit] May deaths

• May 16 - George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (b. 1864).

[edit] October deaths

• October 25 - Henry Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Northern Railway 1896-1911 (b. 1951).

[edit] December deaths

• December 5 - Sir William Mackenzie, part owner of Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (b. 1849).
• December 10 - Thomas George Shaughnessy, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1899-1918 (b. 1853).

[edit] References

• Casper Star-Tribune (June 22, 2005), BP Amoco Timeline. Retrieved June 22, 2005
• Loy, Wesley, Anchorage Daily News (April 30, 2005), Frank Turpin, railroad, oil leader, dies. Retrieved May 4, 2005.
• A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9, 2005.
• Trains News Wire (April 27, 2005), ‘Miss Southern Belle’ dies. Retrieved May 4, 2005.

1. ^ Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, This Month in Railroad History - March. Retrieved March 10, 2006.
2. ^ SteamLocomotive.com Norfolk and Western Class Y Locomotives. Retrieved March 10, 2006.