1911 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1911.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 May events 1.2 July events 1.3 October events 1.4 November events 1.5 December events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 March deaths 3.2 September deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] May events

• May 12 - Electric trains begin work between London Victoria station and Crystal Palace
• May 30 - The first Milwaukee Road Olympian passenger train arrives in Deer Lodge, Montana.

[edit] July events

• July 10 - Six construction workers die in an accident while working on the Western Maryland Railway's Salisbury Viaduct.
• July 14 - The Santa Maria Valley Railway is incorporated in Los Angeles, California.
• July 25 - Canadian Northern Railway (CNOR) purchases the right-of-way and assets of the defunct Carillon and Grenville Railway, the last broad gauge railroad (at 5 ft 6 inches) in North America, to become part of CNOR's Montreal-Ottawa mainline.

[edit] October events

• October 1
  • Hudson and Manhattan Railroad trains make their first station stops at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manhattan Transfer station in New York City.
  • Nigel Gresley (later Sir Nigel Gresley) becomes Locomotive Engineer, Great Northern Railway.
• October 5 - Kowloon-Canton Railway opened throughout.

[edit] November events

• November 20 - Western Maryland Railway breaks ground for the station in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania.

[edit] December events

• December 12 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates its first extra-fare named passenger train, the Santa Fe De Luxe between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.

[edit] Unknown date events

• William Sproule succeeds Robert S. Lovett as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad
• Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland opens.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] March deaths

• March 18 - David Moffat, Colorado financier and head of nine railroads, dies (b. 1839).

[edit] September deaths

• September 12 - John Souther, founder of Globe Locomotive Works (b. 1816).

[edit] References

• (September 10, 2001), History of the Western Maryland Railway. Retrieved July 7, 2005.
• Newcomb, Kenneth W., The Makers of the Mold. Retrieved February 15, 2005.
• (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 388. 
• (September 10, 2001), Western Maryland Railroad history. Retrieved November 20, 2005.