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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 5:42 AM

FEBRUARY 07, 1915

First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station.

FEBRUARY 07, 1940

British railroads were nationalized.

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Posted by mhurley87f on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:16 AM
 CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote:

FEBRUARY 07, 1940

British railroads were nationalized.

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I think this should be read as the date that the UK's Railway Companies (and in all probability their associated Docks, Harbours, and Canals) came under the Government's direction and control.

Nationalisation/ Nationalization meant something further along the public control continuum, and that happened on 1st. January 1948.

While there was no opposition to the first step, there was much debate and opposition to the second step.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:36 AM
 mhurley87f wrote:
 CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote:

FEBRUARY 07, 1940

British railroads were nationalized.

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

I think this should be read as the date that the UK's Railway Companies (and in all probability their associated Docks, Harbours, and Canals) came under the Government's direction and control.

Nationalisation/ Nationalization meant something further along the public control continuum, and that happened on 1st. January 1948.

While there was no opposition to the first step, there was much debate and opposition to the second step.

Martin 

 

 

Railroad history in the United Kingdom is something that I simply do not have a good grasp on, and I appreciate your comments, Martin. My two sources of information are www.railwaystation.com and the daily newsletter from ArcaMax Publishing which I receive in an e-mail format, and I quoted the piece about the railroads being nationalized in Great Britain exactly as I saw it in this morning's addition of "History & Quotes" from ArcaMax.

Almost all of the information that I get from railwaystation.com pertains to railroading in the U.S. and Canada. If anyone out there knows of any other sources of historical material pertaining to railroading in North America or elsewhere, I would appreciate hearing about it.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:14 AM

FEBRUARY 08, 1951

Railroad workers return to work by order of the U.S. Army.

FEBRUARY 08, 1986

A head on collission between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta, Canada claims 23 lives.

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Posted by mhurley87f on Thursday, February 8, 2007 7:25 AM

Dear CP 2816,

Please don't think I was nit picking, and I hope I haven't offended you. Your thread is very interesting, and I appreciate that you're conscientious about maintaining daily entries.   

Keep up the (very) good work,

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Thursday, February 8, 2007 7:39 AM

Martin, my friend,

No offense was taken by your remarks. Some of the information that I obtain from railwaystation.com is often inaccurate or just plain wrong. And I appreciate it when other members of the forums point out to me these inacurracies.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Friday, February 9, 2007 5:57 AM

FEBRUARY 09, 1875

The Boston & Maine Railroad completes construction of it's tunnel under Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts.

FEBRUARY 09, 1911

Pacific & Eastern Railway acquired by the SP&S Railway.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Friday, February 9, 2007 9:08 AM

dmoor74 has informed me that the information regarding my previous post is a bit inaccurate. And the following is what he had to say about the Boston & Maine's Hoosac Tunnel:

To be historically correct, the tunnel was completed by the Troy and Greenfield Railroad. This road and tunnel were later purchased by the Fitchburg Railroad. The Fitchburg was leased by the Boston & Maine in 1900 and eventually merged.

And I want to thank dmoor74 for this bit of information!

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:12 AM

FEBRUARY 10, 1830

The first interstate railroad in the U.S., the Petersburg Railroad, is chartered in Virginia. In 1833 the line opens in Petersburg, Virginia to Blaneley, North Carolina.

FEBRUARY 10, 1890

The Farmer's Railway, Navigation & Steamboat Portage Company (TFRN&SP) changes their name to the Farmer's Transportation Company. The now almost five year old company proposes to lay tracks from the mouth of the Columbia River to the Dalles, and then eastward to connect with another unnamed, railroad.

FEBRUARY 10, 1935

Pennsylvania Railroad's electric GG-1's are placed in service.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:31 AM

FEBRUARY 11, 1861

President-elect Lincoln takes train from Springfield, Illinois to Washington, D.C.

FEBRUARY 11, 1874

Milwaukee Road predecessor, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company is incorporated.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Monday, February 12, 2007 7:13 AM

FEBRUARY 12, 1849

The Aurora Branch Railroad incorporated, providing the origin of the 11,000 mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.

FEBRUARY 12, 1934

The Union Pacific aluminum alloy streamliner M-10000, later christened the City of Salina, equipped with a distillate-electric motive power unit, was delivered to the Union Pacific by the manufacturer at Chicago.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:46 AM

FEBRUARY 13, 1934

Construction started on SP&S grain elevator at Vancouver, Washington.

FEBRUARY 13, 1954

Construction completed on the Quebec, North Shore & Labrador.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:57 AM

FEBRUARY 14, 1886

First trainload of California oranges to be shipped east departs Los Angeles.

FEBRUARY 14, 1895

Trolley workers in Brooklyn go on strike. The Brooklyn Militia suppresses the riots that ensue.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:15 AM

FEBRUARY 15, 1838

Patent #605 issued for leaf springs for locomotives.

FEBRUARY 15, 1870

Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minnesota.

FEBRUARY 15, 1881

Canadian Pacific Railway Company incorporated.

FEBRUARY 15, 1942

Final run on the nation's first commercially successful cable car line, the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco.Sad [:(]

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Friday, February 16, 2007 6:24 AM

FEBRUARY 16, 1881

Canadian Pacific Railway Company chartered.

FEBRUARY 16, 1907

22 killed in train accident at New York City.

FEBRUARY 16, 1909

First subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, February 16, 2007 9:30 AM

FROM BELLSOUTH.NET 'ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY':

In 1996, 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, MD.

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Posted by SchemerBob on Friday, February 16, 2007 10:21 AM
 cherokee woman wrote:

FROM BELLSOUTH.NET 'ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY':

In 1996, 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, MD.

Yep, that crash was the result of the driver of the MARC train ignoring a yellow signal and not having enough time to stop, as the Amtrak Capitol Limited was crossing over to the adjacent track.

Long live the BNSF .... AND its paint scheme. SchemerBob
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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, February 16, 2007 3:57 PM
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FEBRUARY 16, 1909

First subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City.

Wait a minute...

For at least five years, then, people got off the platforms and into the subway cars some other way?

Ramps leading to end doors?

Roof hatches and manhole covers?

Do tell!

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:41 AM

FEBRUARY 17, 1871

William J. Palmer announces that the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad will be built using a 3 foot gauge.

FEBRUARY 17, 1950

32 killed in Long Island Railroad collision at Rockville Center, New York.

FEBRUARY 17, 1961

Application for Hill lines merger made to ICC.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:20 AM

FEBRUARY 18, 1947

24 killed when the Pennsylvania Railroad's Red Arrow derails at Gallatin, Pennsylvania.

FEBRUARY 18, 1991

One person was killed and 40 more were injured when the IRA bombed two railroad stations in central London.

FEBRUARY 18, 2003

Around 200 people died and many more were hurt in a South Korea Subway fire set by a man authorities say apparently was upset by his doctors.

FEBRUARY 18, 2004

40 chemical and fuel-laden runaway railcars derailed in northeastern Iran, producing a massive explosion that killed at least 265 people.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Monday, February 19, 2007 6:59 AM

FEBRUARY 19, 1831

The York, America's first coal-burning locomotive makes trial run.

FEBRUARY 19, 1903

Congress enacts the Elkins Act, which removes rebates on freight rates. The rebates had bred corruption and were detrimental to fair trade competition.

FEBRUARY 19, 1912

Tunnel no. 7 caves in (SP&S Ry).

FEBRUARY 19, 1951

Pennsylvania Railroad indicted for manslaughter for wreck two weeks previously.

FEBRUARY 19, 1985

Soo Line approved as purchaser for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:20 AM

FEBRUARY 20, 1852

Completion of the Michigan Southern Railway enables trains to reach Chicago from the east.

FEBRUARY 20, 1877

Construction completed on the first Cantilever bridge. The 1,125 foot bridge was built for the Cincinnati Southern Railroad to span the Kentucky River.

FEBRUARY 20, 1893

Panic of 1893 is foreshadowed by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroads with debts exceeding $125 million.

FEBRUARY 20, 1894

Virginia legislature grants charter to the Southern Railway Company.

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Posted by Datafever on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:18 AM
FEBRUARY 21, 1968
Last run for the Southern Pacific - Rock Island Golden State.
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Posted by Datafever on Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:11 AM
FEBRUARY 22, 1804
The first steam engine tramway locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, hauled a load of 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons a distance of 9 miles.  The trip took about 2 hours.

FEBRUARY 22, 1854
The Chicago and Rock Island becomes the first railroad to reach the Mississippi River.

FEBRUARY 22, 1855
The New Madrid and West Prairie Road Company begins operation.

FEBRUARY 22, 1856
First railroad service on the West Coast begins with a run from Sacramento to Folsom, California.

FEBRUARY 22, 1867
Pullman Palace Car Company is chartered.

FEBRUARY 22, 1884
Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.

FEBRUARY 22, 1890
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (the "Big Four Railroad") gains control of the Peoria and Eastern Railway in southern Illinois.

FEBRUARY 22, 1893
The Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway commences regular service to Kazabazua.

FEBRUARY 22, 1901
The Interprovincial Bridge is opened.  (However, trains could not be run immediately because railway connection in Hull was not completed.)

FEBRUARY 22, 1941
Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad" premieres.

FEBRUARY 22, 1960
Canadian Pacific Railway operates its last steam locomotive powered train in regular service as freight train number 76, led by 4-6-2 number 1262, arrives in Montreal.

FEBRUARY 22, 1995
Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) announces the appointment of former CSX Transportation Chief Operating Officer Jerry Davis to the position of CEO for SP.

FEBRUARY 22, 2002
383 people die in the Al Ayyat train disaster when a gas cylinder for a stove on a passenger train travelling between Cairo and Luxor, Egypt, explodes and sets 7 of the train's 11 passenger cars on fire.
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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:47 AM
That's one Roy Harris composition I haven't heard before--might be worth looking into!

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Posted by Datafever on Friday, February 23, 2007 2:01 AM
FEBRUARY 23, 1832
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad was incorporated with capital of six hundred thousand dollars.

FEBRUARY 23, 1853
Indiana Legislature approves, "An act to authorize railroad companies to consolidate their stock with the stock of railroad companies in this or in an adjoining state, and to connect their roads with the roads of said companies, and to authorize railroad companies to construct their roads on the routes which they may have heretofore surveyed and located, and to use and occupy the same when completed."

FEBRUARY 23, 1858
The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and the Sandusky City and Indiana Railroad Company merge to become the Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad Company.

FEBRUARY 23, 1861
President-elect Abraham, Lincoln arrives under guard from Baltimore via B&O RR for inauguration.

FEBRUARY 23, 1902
J.P. Morgan meets with President Theodore Roosevelt in hopes of heading off an anti-trust suit against his Northern Securities firm, a holding company that controlled the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Burlington railroads. Morgan tells the President, If we have done anything wrong, send your man to our man and they can fix it up. Roosevelt tells him That can't be done.

FEBRUARY 23, 1910
After a snow delay at the east Cascade Mountains town of Leavenworth, two Great Northern trains, the Spokane Local passenger train No. 25 and Fast Mail train No. 27, proceeded westbound towards Puget Sound.  Heavy snow and avalanches blocked the trains near Wellington.  On March 1, avalanches engulfed the trains resulting in 96 deaths.

FEBRUARY 23, 1947
Streamlined passenger cars begin service on Nos. 1 & 2 (SP&S Ry.)

The first post-war streamlined train, Great Northern's new Empire Builder, is introduced.  These five streamliners, each of 12 cars and a 4,000 horsepower, two-unit diesel-electric locomotive, began daily service between Chicago and Seattle/Portland on a 45-hour schedule.
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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, February 23, 2007 4:44 PM

 Datafever wrote:

FEBRUARY 23, 1947

The first post-war streamlined train, Great Northern's new Empire Builder, is introduced.  These five streamliners, each of 12 cars and a 4,000 horsepower, two-unit diesel-electric locomotive, began daily service between Chicago and Seattle/Portland on a 45-hour schedule.

You'll get a bit of argument over this one--the Pere Marquette streamliners began service between Detroit and Grand Rapids on August 10, 1946, with all new lightweight equipment (including head-end cars) and brand-new E7s.

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Posted by Datafever on Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:02 AM
FEBRUARY 24, 1846
Dayton and Western Railroad Company incorporated.

FEBRUARY 24, 1848
An act passed to incorporate the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad Company.

FEBRUARY 24, 1864
The Flushing & Woodside Railroad Company was incorporated to build from a connection with the Long Island Railroad at Woodside to Flushing, with a branch to Whitestone.  It became part of the Flushing & North Side Railroad.

FEBRUARY 24, 1870
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company leases the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, which extended from Albany to Binghamton, New York.

FEBRUARY 24, 1883
The Long Island City and Manhattan Beach Railroad Company was incorporated to connect the New York & Manhattan Beach Railway at Cooper Avenue Junction with the Long Island Railroad Montauk Division at Fresh Pond Junction.

FEBRUARY 24, 1888
The 494 mile long Northern and Northwestern Railway is acquired by the Grand Trunk Railway.

FEBRUARY 24, 1893
The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad files for bankruptcy with a debt of over $125 million.

FEBRUARY 24, 1896
Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.

FEBRUARY 24, 1906
Oregon Trunk incorporated.

FEBRUARY 24, 1910
The Cleveland Short Line Railway, a subsidiary of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, opens its first 9.73 mile (15.66 km) section of track from Rockport to Marcy, Ohio, and a junction with the Lake Erie and Pittsburg Railway.

FEBRUARY 24, 1911
Astoria & Columbia River Railroad (A&CR) purchased by the SP&S.

FEBRUARY 24, 1930
The Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw acquires 12.5 miles of the former Michigan (interurban) Railroad from Richland to Hooper.

FEBRUARY 24, 1962
The Santa Maria Valley Railroad abandons steam engines, with #21 taking its last run.  Captain Hancock took the throttle and Walt Disney rode in the cab.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:11 AM

FEBRUARY 25, 1832

Ground broken for New York City's first street railway system.

FEBRUARY 25, 1832

Incorporation of the Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad, the first Canadian railroad charter.

FEBRUARY 25, 1908

The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad officially opens the first tunnel under the Hudson River.

Datafever did a good job in filling in a lot of historical information while I was absent, and I am a bit curious as to what his or her source or sources of information were.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Monday, February 26, 2007 5:37 AM

FEBRUARY 26, 1870

First New York City subway openes (pneumatic powered).

FEBRUARY 26, 1973

The Chessie System incorporporated by a combination of the Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio and the Western Maryland railroads.

FEBRUARY 26, 1979

Amtrak Superliner cars begin operation.

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