1915 in rail transport

1915 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 15 - The final spike is driven on the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia.

March events

* 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 the Chicago 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

* May 8 - Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland.
* May 22 - In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, 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

* August 1 - Estación Retiro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens.

September events

* September 14 - The funeral train for William Cornelius Van Horne departs Windsor Station in Montreal at 11:00 AM bound for Joliet, Illinois; the train is pulled by CP 4-6-2 number 2213.

October events

* 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

* December 16 - William Kissam Vanderbilt is found to be in violation of antitrust laws in the United States because the New York Central owns a controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road, both of which Vanderbilt owned.

Births

December births

* December 10 - William N. Deramus III, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1949-1957, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1957-1961, Kansas City Southern Railway 1961-1973, is born (d. 1989).

Unknown date births

* Carl Fallberg, cartoonist who created Fiddletown & 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

* May 20 - Charles Francis Adams, Jr., president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1884–1890 (b. 1835).

eptember deaths

* September 11 - William Cornelius Van Horne, oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, youngest superintendent of Illinois 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] ". Retrieved September 13 2005.
* Soylent Communications (2005), " [http://www.nndb.com/people/488/000082242/ Charles Francis Adams, Jr.] ". Retrieved February 21 2005.


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