1914 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1914.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 March events 1.2 April events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 July events 1.6 August events 1.7 October events 1.8 December events 1.9 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 December births 2.2 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 3.1 January deaths 3.2 March deaths 3.3 November deaths 3.4 Unknown date deaths 4 References

Events

March events

• March 17 - A celebration is held in honor of the first train to arrive on the newly constructed Kansas City Southern Railway line in Hot Springs, Arkansas.^[1]

April events

• April 2 - Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.

• April 7 - The last spike is driven (pictured) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Fort Fraser, British Columbia, 93 miles (150 km) west of Prince George, completing the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.^[2]

May events

• May 17 - Canadian Northern Railway acquires Canadian Northern Ontario Railway.^[3]

June events

• June 18 - The Carrbridge rail crash in Scotland kills 5 people.

July events

• July 11 - The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.^[4]
• July 15 - Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
• July 28 - Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria this day at Sarajevo, the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople.

August events

• August 4 - British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure.^[5]
• August 19 - Passenger trains of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway's Central Station in Toronto.

October events

• October 13 - The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
• October 23 - Northwestern Pacific Railroad is completed connecting Humboldt County, California to the United States rail network.^[6]

December events

• December 20 - Tokyo Station in Japan opens.

Unknown date events

• The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad changes its official name to simply New York Central
• The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership.
• The United States government purchases the bankrupt Alaska Northern and moves the railroad's headquarters to Anchorage, Alaska
• The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Florida Central Railroad.
• Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved wigwag grade crossing signal.
• The first prototype of the PRR K4s Pacific steam locomotive class is built.

Births

December births

• December 16 - O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s (d. 2001).^[7]

Unknown date births

• Benjamin W. Heineman, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway.

Deaths

January deaths

• January 21 - Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Scottish financier, promoter of the Canadian Pacific Railway (b. 1820).

March deaths

• March 12 - George Westinghouse, American inventor; developed the Westinghouse air brake (b. 1846).

November deaths

• November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (b. 1833).^[8]

Unknown date deaths

• George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (b. 1842).
• Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (b. 1842).^[9]
• William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (b. 1837).^[10]

References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11, 2005.
• (July 28, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797.