September 6 in rail transport
- September 6 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1869 – The first westbound train to travel the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America arrives in San Francisco, California.[cite web| url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histsep.htm| title=This month in railroad history: September| author=Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society| date=2005| accessdate=2006-09-06| ] ]
* 1898 – Fifteen people are killed when two spans of the New York and Ottawa Railroad's bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses.[cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=2006-08-26| accessdate=2006-09-06| ] ] 20th century
* 1918 – The Canadian Northern Railway is nationalized, later to become part of Canadian National Railway.
* 1943 – A hot box on Pennsylvania Railroad's "Congressional" passenger train derails the train at Frankford Junction, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people.
* 1960 – Canadian National Railway drives the last spike in its new Optic-Chisel Lake, Manitoba, line.[cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=2006-08-22| accessdate=2006-09-06| ] ]
* 1960 – Maine Central Railroad discontinues all passenger train services to become a freight-only railroad. 21st century
* 2005 – Indonesian transport officials at a meeting in Bandar Lampung announce plans to build a trans-Sumatran railway to connect Banda Aceh to Bakauheni, a distance of 2,151 km (1,337 miles). [cite news| url=http://www.indonesia-relief.org/mod.php?mod=publisher&op=viewarticle&cid=19&artid=1615| title=Indonesia To Build Trans-Sumatra Railway| date=2005-09-06| accessdate=2006-09-06| work=Indonesia Relief| ]
Births
Deaths
* 1940 – Leonor F. Loree, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1901-1904, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad -1904, Delaware and Hudson Railroad 1907-1938, Kansas City Southern Railway 1918-1920, and chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1926-1928 (b. 1858). [cite web| url=http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm| title=Saga of the Kansas City Southern Lines| author=Kansas City Southern Historical Society| accessdate=2006-09-06| ]
* 2004 – W. H. Krome George, director of Norfolk Southern Railway 1979-1990, dies (b, 1918).
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