March 2 in rail transport
- March 2 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1893 – The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act is enacted, mandating that all cars in interchange service be equipped with air brakes, automatic couplers and grab irons.
20th century
* 1970 – The Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway merge to form Burlington Northern Railroad.
21st century
* 2005 – Citing disputes in paid leave policies, around 200 BNSF Railway dispatchers walk off the job for nearly three hours, causing traffic delays over the entire system from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
Births
* 1865 – Frederick Methvan Whyte, New York Central Railroad mechanical engineer who developed Whyte notation, is born (d. 1941). [cite book| author=Lane, Harold Francis, editor| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1913 Edition| publisher=Simmons-Boardman, New York| year=1913| pages=p 588]
Deaths
* 1951 – Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company, dies (b. 1877).
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