1904 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1904.
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Events
March events
- March 8 - The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline.
- March 20 - The Southern Pacific Railroad completes the Coast Line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA.
July events
- July 21 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
August events
- August 15 - The Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian Atlantic Railway sign an agreement that will place the Canadian Atlantic under Grand Trunk's control.
September events
- September 12 - Indianapolis Traction Terminal opens, the largest interurban terminal in the world.
October events
- October 25 - The first 200 km (124 miles) section of the Baghdad Railway opens.
- October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens; the system is now the largest in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.
Unknown date events
- The Tidewater Railway is chartered in Virginia.
- American Locomotive Company purchases the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Canada, which soon became Montreal Locomotive Works.
- The United States government purchases the Panama Railway from the French canal company Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique.
- Lucius E. Johnson succeeds Frederick J. Kimball as president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
- American Car and Foundry builds the first all-steel passenger car in the world; the car is delivered to the Interborough Rapid Transit system of New York City as the first car in an order of 300.
- American Car and Foundry acquires Southern Car and Foundry of Memphis, Tennessee.
Births
July births
- July 30 - Buck Crump, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1955-1964 and 1966 (d. 1989).
Deaths
References
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (April 3 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 15 2005.
- Trains of Turkey (December 1 2004), Baghdad Railway. Retrieved October 25 2005.



