1914 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1914.
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Events
July events
- July 11 - The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.
- July 28 - Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the June 28 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo, the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople.
August events
- August 19 - Passenger trains of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway's Central Station in Toronto.
October events
- October 13 - The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
Unknown date events
- The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad changes its official name to simply New York Central
- The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership.
- The United States government purchases the bankrupt Alaska Northern and moves the railroad's headquarters to Anchorage, Alaska
- The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Florida Central Railroad.
- Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved wigwag grade crossing signal.
- The first prototype of the PRR K4s Pacific steam locomotive class is built.
Births
December births
- December 16 - O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s (d. 2001).
Unknown date births
- Benjamin W. Heineman, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Deaths
March deaths
- March 12 - George Westinghouse, American inventor; developed the Westinghouse air brake (b. 1846).
Unknown date deaths
- Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (b. 1842).
- William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (b. 1837)
References
- (December 1 2004), Baghdad Railway. Retrieved July 7 2005.
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11 2005.
- Indiana Historical Society, Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch. Retrieved February 15 2005.
- O. Winston Link Museum, O. Winston Link Biography. Retrieved February 4 2005.
- Pearson Education (2005), William Barstow Strong. Retrieved June 2, 2005.
- (July 28 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 16 2005.
- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
