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March 1: As part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's plan to end a bankruptcy dating from 1933, it absorbs 23 subsidiaries, including some Class I railroads: New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (Gulf Coast Lines), Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, and ...
March 20 – Kotoku Line, Takamatsu to Tokushima route officially completed with regular operation service to start in Shikoku Island, Japan. [5]March 23 – The North Manchuria Railway, the former Chinese Eastern Railway within the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, is sold by the Soviet Union to the Manchukuo Government; [6] it is then merged into the Manchukuo National Railway and ...
Indianapolis, Indiana–South Bend, Indiana [1933] 1932–1936 Winter Haven-Ft. Myers Special: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Jacksonville, Florida–Fort Myers, Florida [1926] 1925–1928; 1933–1941 Wisconsin Lakes Special: Chicago and North Western Railway: Chicago, Illinois–Watersmeet, Michigan [1952] 1932–1936; 1940; 1950–1955; 1963 ...
The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʁaɪçsˌbaːn]), also known as the German National Railway, [1] the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, [2] and the German Imperial Railway, [3] [4] was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire.
December 12 – Germany – Hagen: A head-on collision results in the deaths of 15 people. [91] Genthin rail disaster Genthin rail crash memorial. December 22 – Germany – Genthin rail disaster: Collision when train D180 drives into previously delayed and overcrowded train D10 from Berlin to Cologne. 278 dead, 453 injured. Highest number of ...
1929-1933 Central Texas Express: Santa Fe: Lubbock, Texas - Sweetwater, Texas [1948] 1947-1950 Century of Progress: Chicago and Eastern Illinois: Chicago, Illinois - St. Louis, Missouri [1935] 1936-1936 Challenger: Union Pacific: Chicago, Illinois - Los Angeles, California [1954] 1935-1971 Champion: Pennsylvania, then Penn Central (1968-1971)
In the first half of the 19th century, opinions about the emerging railways in Germany varied widely. While business-minded people like Friedrich Harkort and Friedrich List saw in the railway the possibility of stimulating the economy and overcoming the patronization of little states, and were already starting railway construction in the 1820s and early 1830s, others feared the fumes and smoke ...