1969 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January - The PATCO Hi-Speedline, in southeastern Pennsylvania, opens.
[edit] February events
- February 16 - Căile Ferate Române, in Romania, completes its systemwide electrification project.
[edit] April events
- April 5 - The South Devon Railway, in England, reopens as a preserved steam railway.
[edit] May events
- May 6 - The Chicago Transit Authority's Englewood 'L' service is extended to the new Ashland/63rd terminal.
- May - A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.
[edit] September events
- September 28 - The Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit operation in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway opens. The new Dan Ryan line was combined with the Lake Street 'L' to form the West-South route (Lake-Dan Ryan) providing through service between 95th Street and Harlem Avenue, Forest Park. The Dan Ryan line now comprises the southern half of today's Red Line.
[edit] November events
- November 2 - Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, makes its final run.
[edit] Unknown date events
- ALCO ceases new diesel locomotive manufacturing.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division builds the most powerful and largest diesel locomotive to date, the EMD DDA40X.
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway operates the last freight train on its subsidiary Grand Canyon Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] May deaths
- May 2 - Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950-1966, dies (b. 1901).
