1914 in rail transport

Events

March events

* March 17 - A celebration is held in honor of the first train to arrive on the newly constructed Kansas City Southern Railway line in Hot Springs, Arkansas. [Kansas City Southern Historical Society, " [http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm The Kansas City Southern Lines] ". Retrieved March 17 2006.]

April events

* April 2 - Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.
* April 7 - The last spike is driven (pictured) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Fort Fraser, British Columbia, 93 miles (150 km) west of Prince George, completing the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert. [cite web| date=March 17 2006| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| accessmonthday=7 April | accessyear=2006 ]

May events

* May 17 - Canadian Northern Railway acquires Canadian Northern Ontario Railway.cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| year=2006-04-28| accessdate=2006-05-17 ]

July events

* July 11 - The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens. [cite web|title=Baghdad Railway|date=1 December 2004|url=http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/History/CIOB|accessdate=2005-07-07]
* July 15 - Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
* July 28 - Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria this day at Sarajevo, the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople.

August events

* August 4 - British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure. [cite book|author=Hamilton, J. A. B.|title=Britain's Railways in World War I|publisher=George Allen and Unwin|location=London|year=1967]
* August 19 - Passenger trains of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway's Central Station in Toronto.

October events

* October 13 - The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.

December events

* December 20 - Tokyo Station in Japan opens.

Unknown date events

* The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad changes its official name to simply New York Central
* The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership.
* The United States government purchases the bankrupt Alaska Northern and moves the railroad's headquarters to Anchorage, Alaska
* The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Florida Central Railroad.
* Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved wigwag grade crossing signal.
* The first prototype of the PRR K4s Pacific steam locomotive class is built.

Births

December births

* December 16 - O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s (d. 2001). [cite web|author=O. Winston Link Museum|title=O. Winston Link Biography|url=http://www.linkmuseum.org/index-1.html|accessdate=2005-02-04]

Unknown date births

* Benjamin W. Heineman, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway.

Deaths

March deaths

* March 12 - George Westinghouse, American inventor; developed the Westinghouse air brake (b. 1846).

November deaths

* November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (b. 1833).cite journal| journal=The Soo| publisher=The Soo Line Historical and Technical Society| month=Summer| year=2007| volume=29| issue=3| title=The Wisconsin Central in Eau Claire| id=ISSN 0733-5296| pages=pp 9–43| author=Easton, Larry E. ]

Unknown date deaths

* George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (b. 1842).
* Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (b. 1842). [cite web|author=Indiana Historical Society|title=Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch|url=http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0754.html#BIOGRAPHICAL|accessdate=2005-02-15]
* William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (b. 1837). [cite web|author=Pearson Education|title=William Barstow Strong|date=2005|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0772575.html|accessdate=2005-06-02]

References

* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved October 11 2005.
* (July 28 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history] ". Retrieved August 16 2005.
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