1942 in rail transport

1942 in rail transport

Events

April events

* Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

May events

* May 1 – The last pre-war streamliner, the Illinois Central Railroad's refurbished "Panama Limited", is put into service.

June events

* June 13 – Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City.
* June 22 – Work starts on construction of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), by the Empire of Japan to support its forces in the Burma campaign using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.

July events

* July 5 – The multiple unit passenger trainsets used by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad on the "Prospector" between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard locomotives and unpowered passenger cars.
* July 11 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt. [cite web| publisher=Indian Railways Fan Club| url=http://irfca.org/faq/faq-history3.html| title=IR History: Part - III (1900 - 1947)| accessdate=2005-07-07 ]

August events

* August 8 – The "Mumbai Rajdhani" passenger train, one of many "Rajdhani Express" trains, is inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai, India.

eptember events

* September 8 – "Unspiking" ceremony at Promontory Summit as the original Central Pacific/Union Pacific line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout the United States.

December events

* December 27 – Almonte, Ontario, Canada: Thirty-six people are killed and over 200 injured when a passenger train running late was struck from behind by a troop train.cite web| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=December 12 2005| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| accessdate=2005-12-27 ]

Unknown date events

* Samuel Hopkins Adams publishes his novel "The Harvey Girls" commemorating the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that served passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
* D'Alton Cory Coleman succeeds Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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