1938_in_rail_transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1938.

Events

January events

• January 1 - Creation of SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), bringing the principal railway companies of France together under government control.

February events

• February - A second all-lightweight trainset enters service on the Super Chief.

March events

• March 27 - Santa Fe Railroad inaugurates San Diegan passenger train service between Los Angeles and San Diego.Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved on 27 March, 2006.

May Events

• May 15 - The Lake Shore Electric Railway in Ohio ceases operations.

June events

• June 16 - The Pike\'s Peak Cog Railway in Colorado operates gasoline-powered railcar number 7, the first rack railcar in the world, for the first time.Manitou & Pike\'s Peak Cog Railway (2005). Cog Railway History. Retrieved on 2005-06-13.

July events

• July 3 - The London and North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Mallard reaches a speed of 126 mph (203 km/h), the highest certified speed for a steam locomotive.
• July 31 - The Pennsylvania Railroad, in its public timetable issued today, boasts that “19% of all passengers are carried on the Pennsylvania Railroad.”

October events

• October - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E4.

December events

• December 13 - The Reading Railroad\'s Crusader passenger train is introduced.
• December 15 - The first diesel locomotives in the southeast United States, EMD E4s, appear on the Orange Blossom Special.

Unknown date events

• Pennsylvania Railroad\'s Broadway Limited is completely re-equipped based on an industrial design by Raymond Loewy.
• Overhead wire on the Pennsylvania Railroad\'s mainline from New York City reaches Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
• The first passenger car equipped with fluorescent lights was operated on the New York Central Railroad.

Births

Unknown date births

• John H. Kuehl, editor of Private Varnish magazine, passenger car historian and photographer (d. 2005). (May 2005) "Obituaries". Trains Magazine: p. 21. 

Deaths

February deaths

• February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt, director of the New York Central system (b. 1856).

October deaths

• October 16 - Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (b. 1870).

December deaths

• December 1 - David Blyth Hanna, first president of Canadian National Railway (b. 1858).

References

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