July 24 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 24.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 19th century
- 1870 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
- 1877 – Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. Patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.
[edit] 20th century
- 1937 – Walter Kidde is appointed as trustee of the bankrupt New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway.[1]
- 1986 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.
- 1996 – Louis Gallois, former president of the Aerospatiale, becomes president of the SNCF in replacement of Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, imprisonned for being suspected of being part of the Elf Aquitaine scandal.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 1892 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, dies (b. 1810).
[edit] References
- ^ Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.
