July 15 in rail transport
- July 15 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1894 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps "El Gobernador", at the time the largest locomotive in the world. [cite book| author=Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A.| title=Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium| publisher=Shade Tree Books| year=1987| id=ISBN 0-930742-12-5]
20th century
* 1914 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
* 1918 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens a new station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916. [cite web| url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/about/santa-fe_history.html| author=San Bernardino Associated Governments| title=A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot| year=2004| accessdate=2006-07-17| ]
* 1923 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
* 1933 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
* 1936 – The New York Central introduces the "Mercury" passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.
21st century
* 2004 – Dennis H. Miller is promoted to president of the Iowa Interstate Railroad.
Births
* 1843 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888-1893, is born (d. 1919). [cite book| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887| location=Chicago, Illinois| publisher=Railway Age| year=1887| page=236 ]
Deaths
* 1976 - William C. Coleman, president of Monon Railroad, (b. 1901). [cite journal| journal=Railway Age| title=Obituary| pages=p 43| month=August 9| year=1976| publisher=Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation| volume=177| issue=14| ]
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