1934_in_rail_transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1934.

Events

February events

• February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division completes construciton on Union Pacific Railroad\'s M-10000 streamlined passenger trainset.
• February 12 - Union Pacific takes delivery of M-10000, later known as the “City of Salina”.

April events

• April 9 - The Budd Company completes construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad\'s Pioneer Zephyr.
• April 18 - The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad\'s Pioneer Zephyr is first christened as the Zephyr at Pennsylvania Railroad\'s Broad Street station.

May events

• The first Italian E428 electric locomotive is produced.
• May 26 - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad\'s Pioneer Zephyr makes its "dawn-to-dusk" nonstop run between Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois.

June events

• June 29 - The Southern Railway renames the Southern Belle passenger train (between London and Brighton, England) to Brighton Belle.Hill, Keith (February 2005). "Brighton\'s Belle Époque". BackTrack 19 (2): pp. 70-79. 

September events

• September 23 - The Broadway-Rensselaer streetcar line in Albany, New York, operated by United Traction Company, is abandoned.Mohawk and Hudson Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2003). Albany Area Railroads: History and Context. Retrieved on 2005-09-23.
• September 28 - The Winwick rail crash on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway occurs when a busy signalman lines an express passenger train onto a track occupied by a stationary local train; 12 people die in the collision as three of the train\'s passenger cars are telescoped.

October events

• October 12 - The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is created from the merger of five industry organizations.
• October 22 - The M-10001, still in its original 900 hp incarnation, sets an as-yet unbroken record from coast to coast of the United States, running from Oakland Pier to Grand Central Station in 57 hours.

November events

• November 11 - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates regular passenger service between Lincoln, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Missouri, using the Pioneer Zephyr trainset.

December events

• December 14 - The New York Central Railroad unveils the “Commodore Vanderbilt”, the first streamliner steam locomotive and the inspiration for one of Lionel’s more popular toy locomotives.
• December 26 - The Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co. merges with its subsidiary Standard Steel Car Company to become Pullman-Standard.

Unknown date events

• The first PRR GG1 electric locomotives enter service on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
• 30th Street Station (originally known as Pennsylvania Station) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is built by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
• The first 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives in the world are delivered to the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad.
• ALCO renames the Brooks Works plant, formerly Brooks Locomotive Works, in Dunkirk, New York, to ALCO Thermal Products Division.
• The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues operation of the railroad\'s three gasoline-electric units.

Births

Deaths

September deaths

• September 24 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913-1920, dies (b. 1850).Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1934, p. 17.Railway Age, September 29, 1934, p. 390.

References

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