1922 in rail transport

1922 in rail transport

Events

May events

* May 17 - The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.cite web| url=http://us.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html| title=The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway| author=Beck, Wayne| year=1957| accessdate=2006-05-17| ]

July events

* July 1 - The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board.

August events

* August 31 - H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio.

October events

* October - International Union of Railways (UIC) established in Paris to promote co-operation and standardisation. [cite web|author=Anastasiadou, Irene|title=International Railway Organization in 19th and 20th century Europe|date=2005|url=http://www.tie-project.nl/publications/pdf/wd%209%20Anastasiadou.pdf|accessdate=2007-07-17]

Unknown date events

* The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the "Big Four" Railroad).
* The first Willamette locomotive is built.
* Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
* George Hughes succeeds H. P. M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.

Births

March births

* March 22 - Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (d. 2003)

July births

* July 20 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak.

Unknown date births

* Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway (d. 1993).

Deaths

References


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