1918 in rail transport

1918 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 3 – Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California, the longest (convert|11920|ft|lk=on|disp=slash) streetcar tunnel in the world, opens.cite web| url=http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgtun.htm| title=San Francisco History - City's Tunnels| accessdate=2008-07-14| last=Wallace| first=Kevin| date=1949-03-27| work=The City's Tunnels: When S.F. Can't Go Over, It Goes Under Its Hills| work=San Francisco Chronicle| ] [cite web| url=http://www.outsidelands.org/wotp.php| title=West of Twin Peaks| work=Western Neighborhood Projects| year=2008| accessdate=2008-07-28| ]

March events

* March 19 – The United States Congress adopts Standard or "Railroad" time, in use since 1884, as the national standard.
* March 21 – The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States, guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroads from the USRA at the end of World War I.

June events

* June 22 – Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Hammond, Indiana, United States: The engineer of a circus train operating on the Michigan Central Railroad falls asleep while the train is in motion; he misses several signals and runs his train into the rear of a stopped troop train. Several of the passenger cars are completely destroyed in the collision and catch fire; 86 people die and 127 others are injured in the accident.

July events

* July 9 – Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee, United States: Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad trains collide head-on. 101 killed, 171 injured. Deadliest train accident in United States history.
* July 10 – The Denver and Interurban Railroad, in Colorado ceases all operations; passenger service is replaced with buses. [cite web| publisher=Fort Collins Municipal Railway Society| year=2008| url=http://www.fortnet.org/trolley/hist-early.php| title=FCMR History: The Early Years| accessdate=2008-07-28| ]

* July 15 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens a new station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916. [cite web| url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/about/santa-fe_history.html| author=San Bernardino Associated Governments| title=A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot| year=2004| accessdate=2006-07-17| ]

August events

* August 16 – Grand Trunk Railway's freight sheds in Ottawa are destroyed by fire; the loss is estimated at $85,000.cite web| date=2008-06-19| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| accessdate=2008-07-28| ]

eptember events

* September 6 – The Canadian Northern Railway is nationalized, later to become part of Canadian National Railway.

October events

* October 21 – Canadian Northern Railway opens the Mount Royal Tunnel for regular traffic between Montreal and Toronto.cite web| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=2008-05-30| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| accessdate=2008-07-28| ]

November events

* November 1 – The Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in New York City when an inexperienced motorman (pressed into service due to a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) drives one of the system's subway trains too quickly into a curve, derailing the train in a tunnel and killing 97 and injuring over 100.
* November 20 – The Canadian government takes over control of the Canadian Northern Railway, appoints a new board of directors and places the management of the Canadian Government Railways under the new board's control.

December events

* December 20 – The name "Canadian National Railways" is authorized for use to refer to the collection of railway companies forming Canada's national rail system.

Unknown date events

* Julius Krutschnitt succeeds William Sproule as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
* Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty succeeds Thomas George Shaughnessy as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
* The provincial government of British Columbia, Canada, agrees to take over control of Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
* Following its second bankruptcy, Colorado Midland ceases operations.

Births

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

* Albert Alonzo Robinson, vice president and general manager of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1844). [cite book|author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie| year=1950| title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe| publisher=University of Kansas Press| location=Lawrence, Kansas| id=| ]

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