1904 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1904.

Events

February events

• February 8 - Service begins on Canadian Pacific Railway's Maniwaki line between Hull, Ontario and Maniwaki, Quebec.^[1]

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.

May events

• May 9 - Great Western Railway locomotive number 3440, City of Truro, becomes the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel at speeds over 100 mph (160 km/h) when it hauls the Ocean Mails special from Plymouth to London Paddington.

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.
• August 25 - The New Long Railroad Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., opens.^[2]

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

October deaths

• October 4 - Henry C. Payne, president of Milwaukee and Northern Railroad, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company and the Milwaukee and Cream City Traction Company, and receiver for Northern Pacific Railway in 1893 (b. 1843).

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.

1. ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (January 31, 2006), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved February 8, 2006).
2. ^ Washington D.C. Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. Washington, D.C. Railroad History. Retrieved on 2006-08-25.