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Shimoyama was appointed the first president of Japanese National Railways (JNR) when it was established on 1 June 1949. Under the Dodge Line policy of the Japanese government, Shimoyama was responsible for drastic personnel cutbacks of JNR, as a part of which on 4 July 1949 he released a list of about 30,000 employees to be fired. [1]
United States Malbone Street Wreck, 1918 in New York: 98 killed; United States Red Arrow crash, 1947 in Pennsylvania: 24 killed; Australia Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947: 16 killed; Japan Hachikō Line derailment, February 1947: 184 killed: the worst railway accident to occur in Japan; United Kingdom Sutton Coldfield train disaster, 1955: ...
New York City, New York, U.S. Whitfield, the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York on the morning of 17 April 1938. [85] 8 May 1938 Marjorie West: 4 McKean County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
September 7 – United States – The boiler on New York Central Railroad's NYC Hudson locomotive No. 5450 explodes as the train runs through Canastota, New York while hauling the 20th Century Limited from Chicago to New York. Of the train's 17 cars carrying 173 passengers, 10 cars derail, but only the three enginemen are killed, thanks in part ...
Japan built high speed trains more than 50 years ago, an engineering marvel then and now. ... D.C. to New York emits between 1.4 to 3.7 times more greenhouse gasses per person than a train ...
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.
1995 Ais Gill rail accident - A 1995 UK railway accident, where a landslide derailed one train across both tracks of a double track route, which was then struck a train on the other track, heading the opposite direction. Big Bayou Canot rail accident - 1993 USA railway accident, where a train derailed at a bridge struck by a ship. The rails ...
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