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1942 in rail transport
1941
,
1942
,
1943
Years in rail transport
1941 in rail transport
1942 in rail transport
1943 in rail transport
This article lists events related to
rail transport
that occurred in
1942
.
Contents
1
Events
1.1
April events
1.2
May events
1.3
June events
1.4
July events
1.5
August events
1.6
September events
1.7
December events
1.8
Unknown date events
2
Births
3
Deaths
4
References
Events
April events
Union Pacific Railroad
's
M-10002
streamliner
trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection between
Seattle, Washington
, and
Portland, Oregon
.
May events
May 1
– The last pre-war
streamliner
, the
Illinois Central Railroad's
refurbished
Panama Limited
, is put into service.
June events
June 13
– Service is discontinued on the
IRT Second Avenue Line
, an
elevated railway
in
Manhattan
,
New York City
.
June 22
– Work starts on construction of the
Burma Railway
between
Bangkok
,
Thailand
and
Rangoon
, Burma (now
Myanmar
), 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
.
July events
July 5
– The
multiple unit
passenger trainsets used by the
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
on the
Prospector
between
Denver, Colorado
, and
Salt Lake City, Utah
, are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard
locomotives
and unpowered
passenger cars
.
July 11
– A section of the
Sind Peshin State Railway
in the
Chappar Rift
, in present day
Pakistan
, is destroyed by a
flash flood
; the line has not been rebuilt.
[1]
August events
August 8
– The
Mumbai Rajdhani
passenger train
, one of many
Rajdhani Express
trains, is inaugurated by
Mahatma Gandhi
in
Mumbai
,
India
.
September events
September 8
– "Unspiking" ceremony at
Promontory Summit
as the original
Central Pacific
/
Union Pacific
line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout the
United States
.
December events
December 27
–
Almonte, Ontario
,
Canada
: Thirty-six people are killed and over 200 injured when a passenger train running late was struck from behind by a troop train.
[2]
Unknown date events
Samuel Hopkins Adams
publishes his novel
The Harvey Girls
commemorating the
Harvey House
chain of restaurants and hotels that served passengers of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
.
D'Alton Cory Coleman
succeeds Sir
Edward Wentworth Beatty
as president of the
Canadian Pacific Railway
Births
Deaths
References
^
"
IR History: Part - III (1900 - 1947)
". Indian Railways Fan Club. Retrieved on
2005
-
07-07
.
^
"
Significant dates in Ottawa railway history
".
Colin Churcher's Railway Pages
(
December 12
,
2005
). Retrieved on
2005
-
12-27
.
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