- 1915 in rail transport
Events
January events
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January 15 - The final spike is driven on the transcontinentalCanadian Northern Railway atBasque, British Columbia .March events
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March 7 - San Diego's Union Station officially opens, ushering in a new era of rail transport for the City.
*March 15 - The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, later known as the Monon Railroad, acquires control of theChicago and Wabash Valley Railroad . [cite web| url=http://www.monon.org/tdimh.html| title=This day in Monon history| author=Smith, Cecil J.| publisher=Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society| year=2006| accessdate=2007-03-15]May events
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May 8 -Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connectingIbach ,Schwyz , andBrunnen Schifflände ,Switzerland .
*May 22 - In theQuintinshill rail crash , four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people atQuintinshill ,Gretna Green ,Scotland ; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at a busy junction. [cite book|last=Thomas|first=John|year=1969|title=Gretna: Britain's Worst Railway Disaster (1915)|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-4645-8] [cite news |last=Left|first=Sarah|title=Key dates in Britain's railway history|work=The Guardian Unlimited|date=2002-01-15|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,633951,00.html]August events
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August 1 -Estación Retiro inBuenos Aires ,Argentina , opens.September events
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September 14 - The funeral train forWilliam Cornelius Van Horne departs Windsor Station inMontreal at 11:00 AM bound forJoliet, Illinois ; the train is pulled by CP4-6-2 number 2213.October events
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October 1 -Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the "Navajo"passenger train in San Francisco-Los Angeles-Chicago service as a replacement for the "Tourist Flyer ".December events
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December 16 -William Kissam Vanderbilt is found to be in violation of antitrust laws in theUnited States because theNew York Central owns a controlling interest in theNickel Plate Road , both of which Vanderbilt owned.Births
December births
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December 10 -William N. Deramus III , president ofChicago Great Western Railway 1949-1957,Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1957-1961,Kansas City Southern Railway 1961-1973, is born (d. 1989).Unknown date births
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Carl Fallberg , cartoonist who createdFiddletown & Copperopolis (d. 1996).cite journal| author=| year=1997| month=February| title=Obituary| journal=Trains Magazine| volume=57| issue=2| pages=18A| id=| url=| ]Deaths
May deaths
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May 20 -Charles Francis Adams, Jr. , president of theUnion Pacific Railroad 1884 –1890 (b.1835 ).eptember deaths
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September 11 -William Cornelius Van Horne , oversaw the major construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway , youngest superintendent ofIllinois Central Railroad (b.1843 ).References
* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005 ), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". RetrievedSeptember 13 2005 .
* Soylent Communications (2005 ), " [http://www.nndb.com/people/488/000082242/ Charles Francis Adams, Jr.] ". RetrievedFebruary 21 2005 .
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