1969 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.
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Events
January events
- January - The PATCO Hi-Speedline, in southeastern Pennsylvania, opens.
February events
- February 16 - Căile Ferate Române, in Romania, completes its systemwide electrification project.
April events
- April 5 - The South Devon Railway, in England, reopens as a preserved steam railway.
May events
- May - A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.
November events
- November 2 - Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, makes its final run.
Unknown date events
- ALCO ceases new diesel locomotive manufacturing.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division builds the most powerful and largest diesel locomotive to date, the EMD DD40.
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway operates the last freight train on its subsidiary Grand Canyon Railway.
Births
Deaths
References
- Bianchi, Curt (May 1995), "By steam to the Grand Canyon", Trains Magazine, p. 38-45.
- Trains News Wire (April 27 2005), 'Miss Southern Belle' dies. Retrieved May 4 2005.
