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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 15.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1894 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.[1]
20th century edit
- 1914 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
- 1918 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens a new station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916.[2]
- 1923 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
- 1933 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
- 1936 – The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1963 – Yabitsu Station in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, is opened for regular service.
- 1972 – Shin-Nihombashi and Bakurochō stations are opened on JR East's rapid transit Sōbu Line.[3]
21st century edit
- 2004 – Dennis H. Miller is promoted to president of the Iowa Interstate Railroad.
Births edit
- 1800 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad," is born (d. 1878).
- 1843 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888-1893, is born (d. 1919).[4]
- 1864 – Franklin Knight Lane, Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner 1905-1913, chairman of same in 1913, is born (d. 1921).
Deaths edit
- 1890 – Silas Seymour, chief engineer and/or consulting engineer for several railroads in New York in the mid- to late 19th century (b. 1817).
- 1976 - William C. Coleman, president of Monon Railroad, (b. 1901).[5]
References edit
- ^ Diebert, Timothy S. & Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.
- ^ San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). "A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot". Retrieved July 17, 2006.
- ^ Shin-Nihombashi Station information (JR East) (in Japanese)
- ^ The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. 1887. p. 236.
- ^ "Obituary". Railway Age. 177 (14). Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation: 43. August 9, 1976.