1964 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1964.

Events

April 6 - Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.^[1]

The Skokie Swift in service, May 1964

April 20 - The Skokie Swift high-speed rapid transit route of the Chicago Transit Authority 'L' system begins service between the Howard Street Terminal in Rogers Park and Dempster Street in Skokie.
April 29 - The Keiō Dōbutsuen Line in Japan opens.

June 6 - Southern Railway 4501 is taken down to Chattanooga, Tennessee for restoration by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
June 15 - The 2000-series rapid transit cars (2001–2180), built by Pullman-Standard of Chicago, Illinois, are placed in service on the Chicago "L" system. These cars represent the first generation of the Chicago Transit Authority High Performance Family.
June 19 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson presides over the groundbreaking ceremonies for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
June 30 - End of regularly scheduled steam locomotive service on the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.^[2]

July - The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 becomes law in the United States.

October 1 - The Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed route commences operation in Japan; it is the first of many Shinkansen routes to be constructed.
October 9 - End of District line service to Hounslow on the London Underground.

December 19 - The Elektrische Bahn Stansstad–Engelberg in Switzerland reopens with a connection to the national rail network at Hergiswil and conversion to 15 kV AC railway electrification as the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.
December 23 - Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line is opened.

The Wabash, Nickel Plate Road, Pittsburgh and West Virginia and Akron, Canton and Youngstown railroads are all merged into the Norfolk & Western.
Swiss Federal Railways introduces its Re 4/4^II series electric locomotives, built by SLM.
Double-deck cars introduced on suburban railways in Sydney, Australia.^[5]
Benjamin Biaggini succeeds Donald Russell as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Donald Russell assumes the position of chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, a position that was nonexistent since Hale Holden's departure in 1939.
ALCO is purchased by the Worthington Corporation.
The above-ground portion of Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Station in New York City is demolished to make room for Madison Square Gardens, but the tracks remain in use today.
Robert A. "Bob" Emerson succeeds Norris Roy Crump as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.

^ Alaska Railroad. "Alaska Railroad History". Archived from the original on 30 November 2002. Retrieved 6 April 2006.
^ Martin, Cy (1974). Gold Rush Narrow Gauge (2nd ed.). Corona del Mar, California: Trans-Anglo Books. p. 93. ISBN 0-87046-026-9.
^ "History of Swaziland Railway - Then & Now". Swaziland Railway. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 202. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
^ Richardson, Matthew (2001). The Penguin Book of Firsts. New Delhi: Penguin Books India. p. 281. ISBN 0-14-302771-9.