1940 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 14 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway discontinues the San Francisco-Los Angeles-Chicago "Navajo".
* January 27 - The Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad ceases operations in Massachusetts in preparation for abandonment.

February events

* February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E5.

March events

* March 29 - Southern Pacific Railroad runs its last passenger train to Fremont-Centerville, California.

May events

* May 20 - Sixty-six railroads in the United States, in cooperation with the Travelers' Credit Corporation, begin selling railroad tickets, Pullman accommodations and all-expense tours on an installment basis, known as the Travel Credit Plan. Purchases over $50 can be charged.

June events

* June 30 - Last day archbar freight trucks can legally operate in U.S. Interchange service (and then only on empty cars returning to their home roads).
* June - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the unique EMD AB6 locomotives.

July events

* July 17 - The last section of the Baghdad Railway's mainline linking Istanbul and Baghdad is completed between El Yaroubieh and Baiji. [Trains of Turkey (December 1 2004), " [http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/History/CIOB Baghdad Railway] ". Retrieved July 12 2005.]
* July 29 - Rail traffic is suspended in France between French-retained and German-occupied territories.
* July 30 - The Pennsylvania Railroad orders its first 4-4-4-4 T1 duplex-drive steam locomotives. They are expected to be serious competition for diesel power.

eptember events

* September 2 - Kansas City Southern inaugurates the "Southern Belle" passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana. [Trains News Wire (April 27 2005), "'Miss Southern Belle' dies". Retrieved May 4 2005.]
* September 13 - The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad is formed by the merger of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern and Mobile and Ohio Railroads.

October events

* October 1 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opens, constructed using tunnels and grades originally built for the never-completed West Penn Railroad.

November events

* November 4 – Norton Fitzwarren, England: a train driver on the Great Western Railway misreads the signals on a four track line, and drives his train off the end of the track.
* November 22 – – The Newark City Subway in New Jersey opens an extension from Heller Parkway to Grove Street. [cite web| url=http://www.urbanrail.net/am/nark/newark.htm| title=Newark Subway, PATH and Light Rail| work=UrbanRail.net| accessdate=2007-11-22| date=2007| ]

Births

Deaths

October deaths

* October 24 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (b. 1857). [New York Times (October 30 1940), " [http://www.geocities.com/bevshul/OHS/articles/Storey1877.htm W. B. Storey Dies] ". Retrieved August 19 2005.]

Unknown date deaths

* Leonor F. Loree, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1901-1903, Delaware and Hudson Railway 1907-1938 and Kansas City Southern Railway 1918-1920 (b. 1858).

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