1967 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1967.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January - General Electric introduces the GE U30C.
[edit] March events
- March 24 - Soo Line Railroad discontinues passenger train operations.[1]
[edit] April events
- April 1 - The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) begins work.
- April 20 - The Interstate Commerce Commission grants its initial approval of the proposed CNW/CGW merger.[2]
[edit] July events
- July 19 - The New York City Subway introduces its first air conditioned passenger car.
- July 25 - Construction begins in San Francisco, California, on the Market Street Subway.
[edit] October events
- October 2 - Canadian Pacific Railway removes the diamond crossing at Bedell, Ontario, the junction of the railway's Winchester and Prescott subdivisions.
- October 28 - Canadian Pacific Railway moves the last of its equipment out of its Ottawa West yard to the new Walkley Yard.
[edit] September events
- September 30 - The Monon Railroad ceases all passenger train operations.
[edit] December events
- December 3 - The New York Central's 20th Century Limited is discontinued just before the railroad's merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central.
- December 29 - The first steam locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay locomotive.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line railroads merge to form the Seaboard Coast Line railroad..
- Southern Pacific Railroad opens the longest stretch of new railroad construction in a quarter century as the first trains roll over the Palmdale Cutoff through Cajon Pass.
- The Central Railroad of New Jersey declares bankruptcy.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP45.
- D. William Brosnan is succeeded by W. Graham Claytor as president of the Southern Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1945-1966 (b. 1897).[3]
[edit] References
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 30 and October 28, 2005.
- Illinois Railway Museum (May 5, 2005), History of the IRM. Retrieved November 7, 2005.
- National Transportation Safety Board (March 15, 2005), New NTSB publication examines 30-year history of transportation safety improvements. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
- Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society, This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
- ^ (June 17, 1968) "Week at a glance: Chicago roads get merger reaffirmed". Railway Age 164 (23): p 11.
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives, Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945-1967. Retrieved February 9, 2006.
