1906 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1906.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 April events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 July events 1.6 September events 1.7 December events 1.8 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 June deaths 3.2 December deaths 4 References

Events

January events

• January 3 - At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.

April events

• April 18 - The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake strikes, damaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's headquarters building and destroying the mansions of the now-deceased Big Four. Also destroyed are many cable car routes, which will be replaced with electric streetcars.

May events

• May 8 A special train carrying E.H. Harriman makes a run from Oakland CA to New York in 761 hours and 27 minutes. This record will stand until October 1934, when it will be broken by Union Pacific Streamliner M-10000.
• May 19 The Simplon Railroad Tunnel between Italy and Switzerland, the world’s longest until 1979, opens to traffic.

June events

• June 30 - Twenty four passengers and four railwaymen die as the result of a collision between two trains at Salisbury, England.

July events

• July 22 - The State Street Line, Chicago's last cable car route, ends operations.

September events

• September 8 - Ottawa's Bank Street subway is opened as streetcar number 253 of the Ottawa Electric Railway traverses the tunnel.
• September 21 - A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stayed at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and became the only fatality. The train's passengers later erected a monument in the engineer's honor.

December events

• December 7 - The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.
• December 14 - John D. Spreckels announces he will form the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company and build a 148 mile (238 km) line between San Diego and El Centro, California. Spreckels has an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad to silently fund the project.
• December 28 - After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McRea.
• December 30 - A train wreck at Terra Cotta near present day Fort Totten in Washington DC kills 52. The accident leads to the Interstate Commerce Commission banning future wooden body passenger car construction.

Unknown date events

• The Green Bay and Western acquires a majority interest in the Ahnapee and Western Railway.
• Samuel Spencer is succeeded by William Finley as president of the Southern Railway.

Births

Deaths

June deaths

• June 6 - Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (b. 1836).

December deaths

• December 28 - Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (b. 1839).

References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 3 2004), Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history. Retrieved September 8 2005.
• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 21 2005.
• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22 2005.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), RPI: Alumni hall of fame: Alexander J. Cassatt. Retrieved February 22 2005.
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