1944 in rail transport

1944 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 16 - A train crashes in Torro Tunnel in Leon Province, Spain. More than 500 are killed.

March events

* March 3 - Balvano, Italy: A double-headed mixed train stalls in a tunnel. Five people survive, 521 are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. One Hundred ninety-three of the dead who carried no identification, most of them Black Marketeers, are buried in a mass grave at the site (see "Balvano train disaster").
* March 19 - The last steam locomotive purchased new by Southern Pacific Railroad, cab forward class AC-12 4-8-8-2 number 4294, enters service. [cite book| author=Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A.|title=Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium|publisher=Shade Tree Books|year=1987|isbn=0-930742-12-5]

July events

* July 6 - Troop train crash near Jellico, Tennessee, United States: Passenger train derails due to excessive speed on defective track. 35 killed, 99 injured; all soldiers in U.S. Army en route to deployment.

September events

*September 8 - Nickel Plate 765 is built by the Lima Locomotive Works.

October events

* October 16 - The Baltimore & Ohio's last new steam locomotive #5594, Class T-3C rolls out of Mount Clare erecting shop in Baltimore.

Unknown date events

* Charles Fairburn succeeds William Stanier as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway upon Stanier's retirement.
* Fred Gurley succeeds Edward Engel as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Births

June births

* June 11 - Michael R. Haverty, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1989–1995, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway 1995–present. [cite web|author=Vantuono, William C.|date=January 2001|url=http://www.railwayage.com/jan01/railroader_2000.html|title=Mike Haverty, Railroader of the Year|accessdate=2005-03-25]

Unknown date births

* E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993-1998, Railroader of the Year 2002, president of Canadian National Railway 2003-present.

Deaths

January deaths

* January 8 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1878).

March deaths

* March 7 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway (UK) 1923-1937 (b. 1868). [cite web|date=February 26 1999|url=http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/engineers/southern/maunsell.htm|title=Railway engineers - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell|accessdate=2005-02-10] [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|date=2003|publisher=Railway & Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|isbn=0-901461-22-9]

June deaths

* June 19 - Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909-1923 (b. 1855).

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