1936 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1936.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March events
- March 25 - The 200-inch mirror blank for the Palomar observatory begins its cross-country trip aboard a special railroad car.
[edit] May events
- May 11 - Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft's BR 05 class locomotive number 05 002 sets the world's speed record for steam locomotives at 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on a run between Hamburg and Berlin.
- May 12 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
- May 15 - The first City of Los Angeles passenger train makes its debut, using the streamliner trainset M-10002, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.
- May 17 - Illinois Central’s streamliner “Green Diamond” makes its debut, running between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.
- May 20 - The first diesel locomotive rolls out of EMD’s LaGrange plant in McCook, Illinois: a 100-ton, 600-horsepower switcher built for the Santa Fe Railroad.
- May - Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the first of the M-10003-6 streamliner power cars.
[edit] June events
- June 14 - The M-10004 streamliner trainset enters service on the City of San Francisco passenger train.
- June 18 - The first City of Denver passenger train makes its debut running from Chicago, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.
[edit] July events
- July 15 - The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.
[edit] August events
- August 1 - The New Haven Railroad tests a new streamliner: a two-car Besler steam motor train.
[edit] September events
- September 18 - Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) near Saint-Télesphore, Quebec, Canada.
[edit] October events
- October - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Sam Houston Zephyr passenger train.
[edit] November events
- November 8 - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Denver Zephyr passenger train.
[edit] December events
- December 18 - The Twin Cities Zephyr, an articulated trainset pulled by an EMD E5, is placed into service between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
- December - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Ozark State Zephyr passenger train.
[edit] Unknown date events
- Illinois Central's Green Diamond trainset is built by Pullman-Standard .
- Bruce Church, T. R. Merrill, Gene Harden and Ken Nutting form the Growers Ice Company to ship bulk carloads of lettuce by rail from Salinas, California
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Mantis, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (b. 1879).
[edit] References
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved September 18, 2005.
- Wayner, Robert J., ed. (1972). Car Names, Numbers and Consists. New York: Wayner Publications.