1914, 1915, 1916

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1915.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 March events 1.3 May events 1.4 August events 1.5 September events 1.6 October events 1.7 December events 2 Births 2.1 December births 2.2 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 3.1 May deaths 3.2 September deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 15 – The final spike is driven on the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia.

[edit] March events

• March 7 – San Diego's Union Station officially opens, ushering in a new era of rail transport for the City.
• March 15 – The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, later known as the Monon Railroad, acquires control of the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May 8 – Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland.
• May 22 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at a busy junction.^[2][3]

[edit] August events

• August 1 – Estación Retiro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens.
• August 28 – The first train operates over the regauged Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway using 15 in (381 mm) gauge equipment.^[4]

[edit] September events

• September 14 – The funeral train for William Cornelius Van Horne departs Windsor Station in Montreal at 11:00 AM bound for Joliet, Illinois; the train is pulled by CP 4-6-2 number 2213.

[edit] October events

• October 1 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the Navajo passenger train in San Francisco-Los Angeles-Chicago service as a replacement for the Tourist Flyer.

[edit] December events

• December 16 – William Kissam Vanderbilt is found to be in violation of antitrust laws in the United States because the New York Central owns a controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road, both of which Vanderbilt owned.

[edit] Births

[edit] December births

• December 10 – William N. Deramus III, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1949-1957, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1957-1961, Kansas City Southern Railway 1961-1973, is born (d. 1989).

[edit] Unknown date births

• Carl Fallberg, cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis (d. 1996).^[5]

[edit] Deaths

[edit] May deaths

• May 20 – Charles Francis Adams, Jr., president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1884–1890 (b. 1835).

[edit] September deaths

• September 11 – William Cornelius Van Horne, oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1843).

[edit] References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved September 13, 2005.
• Soylent Communications (2005), Charles Francis Adams, Jr.. Retrieved February 21, 2005.