1943 in rail transport

Events

May events

* May 5 - Pullman, retooled from passenger car construction to work for World War II, launches its first ship built for the Navy, a PCE (patrol craft).
* After a year of revenue service, Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from service; its power car is separated from its unpowered cars and the components are reused elsewhere.

June events

* June 4 - Hyde railway accident, New Zealand: Train derails at speed in a curved cutting, 21 killed, 47 injured.

July events

* July 14 - Canadian National Railway opens Central Station in Montreal. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| year=2006-03-17| accessdate=2006-07-14| ]

August events

* August 25 - Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operates its last regular narrow gauge train on the section between Leadville and Climax.cite web| url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histaug.htm| author=Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society| title=This Month in Railroad History: August| date=2005| accessdate=2006-08-25| ]

eptember events

* September 6 - Seventy-nine people are killed when the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Congressional Limited" derails due to a burned out journal at Frankford Junction, Pennsylvania.

October events

*October 17
** Chicago's first rapid transit subway route, Clybourn-Division-State Subway (4.9 miles/7.9 km), opens for passenger service. It contains one of the world's longest underground station platforms – 3,300 feet long.
** Completion of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) (km to mi|415|abbr=yes) 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.

December events

* December 16 - Two Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains collide after a broken rail derails the first one, putting it in the path of the second. Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops.
* The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads.

Unknown date events

* The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America, opens for railroad service.
* After a few years of only producing diesel engines for the United States Navy during World War II, General Motors Electro-Motive Division returns to manufacturing railroad locomotives.
* The last PRR GG1 to be built is completed.

Births

Deaths

February deaths

* February 9 - Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (b. 1877). [cite book| title=The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad| author=Robert E. Mohowski| year=2003| publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press| id=ISBN 0-8018-7222-7 ]
* February 11 - Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900–1905 (b. 1859).

June deaths

* June 2 - John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (b. 1853).

References

* Kansas City Southern Historical Society, " [http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm The Kansas City Southern Lines] ". Retrieved August 15 2005.