1904 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 8 - Service begins on Canadian Pacific Railway's Maniwaki line between Hull, Québec and Maniwaki, Québec. [Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (January 31 2006), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history] ". Retrieved February 8 2006).]

March events

* March 8 - The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline.
* March 20 - The Southern Pacific Railroad completes the Coast Line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA.

May events

* May 9 - Great Western Railway locomotive number 3440, "City of Truro", becomes the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel at a generally recognised speed of over 100 mph (160 km/h) when it hauls an "Ocean Mails" special from Plymouth to London Paddington. [cite journal|author=Semmens, Peter|title="City of Truro" centenary|journal=Railway Magazine|volume=150|issue=1237|month=May | year=2004|pages=14–18]

July events

* July 1 - The Great Western Railway of England introduces the express train between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall which becomes known as the Cornish Riviera Express. [cite book|last=Allen|first=Cecil J.|title=Titled Trains of the Western|publisher=Ian Allan|year=1974|location=Shepperton|isbn=0-7110-0513-3]
* July 21 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.

August events

* August 15 - The Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian Atlantic Railway sign an agreement that will place the Canadian Atlantic under Grand Trunk's control.
* August 25 - The New Long Railroad Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., opens.cite web| url=http://www.dcnrhs.org/dc_rail_history.htm|title=Washington, D.C. Railroad History|author=Washington D.C. Chapter, National Railway Historical Society|accessdate=2006-08-25]

eptember events

* September 12 - Indianapolis Traction Terminal opens, the largest interurban terminal in the world.

October events

* October 25 - The first 200 km (124 miles) section of the Baghdad Railway opens. [cite web|author=Trains of Turkey|date=December 1 2004|url=http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/History/CIOB|title=Baghdad Railway|accessdate=2005-10-25]
* October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company between City Hall (IRT Lexington Avenue Line station) and 145th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) at Broadway. The car fleet available includes the first production all-steel passenger cars in the world from an order of 300 placed with American Car and Foundry. [cite book|author=Cudahy, Brian J.|title=A Century of Subways – celebrating 100 years of New York’s Underground railways|year=2003|publisher=Fordham University Press|location=New York|isbn=0-8232-2292-6]

Unknown date events

* The Tidewater Railway is chartered in Virginia.
* American Locomotive Company purchases the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Canada, which soon becomes Montreal Locomotive Works.
* The United States government purchases the Panama Railway from the French canal company "Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique".
* Lucius E. Johnson succeeds Frederick J. Kimball as president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
* American Car and Foundry acquires Southern Car and Foundry of Memphis, Tennessee.
* The Seebach-Wettingen Railway in Switzerland becomes the first to put into service a locomotive operating on high voltage alternating current single-phase electric power, at 1500 V 15 Hz.cite book|last=Marshall|first=John|title=The Guinness Railway Book|year=1989|publisher=Guinness|location=Enfield|isbn=0-85112-359-7]
* The Stubaitalbahn, a metre gauge interurban at Innsbruck in Austria becomes the first to operate commercially on single-phase electric power when it is electrified at 2500 V 42 Hz.

Births

July births

* July 30 - Buck Crump, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1955-1964 and 1966 (d. 1989).

Deaths

October deaths

* October 4 - Henry C. Payne, president of Milwaukee and Northern Railroad, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company and the Milwaukee and Cream City Traction Company, and receiver for Northern Pacific Railway in 1893 (b. 1843).

References

* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (April 3 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved August 15 2005.