1929 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 1 - Paul Shoup takes over the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad [cite web| url=http://www.cprr.org/Museum/SP_1869-1944/index.html|title=Seventy Five Years of Progress| accessdate=2007-01-13|author=Heath, Erle| date=December 1945]

March events

* March 1 - Sixty-nine railroads buy the American Railway Express Company and rename it Railway Express Agency.

May events

* May - Charles E. Denney succeeds John J. Bernet as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web | url = http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html | title = Erie Railroad presidents | accessdate = 2005-03-15 ]

July events

* July 7 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad begin air/rail service between New York and Los Angeles. Trip time is cut from 100 to 80 hours.

August events

* August 6 - The Ghan begins operation in Australia under its current name.
* August 26 - For the first time, Canadian National Railway uses diesel locomotives to power a passenger train, with unit number 9000 on the second section of the International Limited between Montreal and Toronto.

November events

* November 1 - The Southern Railway celebrates the 21st "birthday" of the "Southern Belle" passenger train with ceremonies at each end of the train's route between London and Brighton.cite journal | last = Hill | first = Keith | date = February 2005 | title = Brighton's Belle Époque | journal = BackTrack | volume = 19 | issue = 2 | pages = 70–79 ]

December events

* December 10 - Ottawa Electric Railway discontinues streetcar service between Carling Avenue and the Experimental Farm.cite web | work = Colin Churcher's Railway Pages | date = December 3 2004 | url = http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm | title = Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history | accessdate = 2005-12-08 ]

Unknown date events

* Henry deForest assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company.
* ALCO purchases McIntosh and Seymour Diesel Engine Company for further manufacturing of diesel engines that will be installed in subsequent ALCO locomotives.
* Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in Argentina takes delivery for suburban service of three diesel locomotives built by Armstrong Whitworth in conjunction with Sulzer Brothers, the first passenger diesels built in the U.K. [cite book|author=Webb, Brian|title=The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894-1940|date=1973|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-6115-5]
* The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad ends passenger train operations. [cite web|url=http://www.i2k.com/~dpierce/LSI/history.html|title=A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad|accessdate=2005-05-09]

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