2000 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.
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Events
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January events
- January 29 - The Termini Station, in Rome, opens.
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May events
- May 23 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific Railroad the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad.
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June events
- June 7 - The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America.
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July events
- July 11 - VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeper cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
- July 14 - The United States Surface Transportation Board's temporary moratorium on railroad mergers is upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; the ruling contributes to the failure of the proposed BNSF/CN merger.
- July 21 - Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.
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October events
- October 2 - VIA Rail operates a funeral train for Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau between Ottawa and Montreal; the train's journey, which was frequently slowed through towns for the numerous well-wishers, was documented by a CBC news helicopter.
- October 17 - The Hatfield rail crash, south of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, occurs when a train traveling at 115 mph derails due to a rail that breaks under it.
- October 29 - Amtrak upgrades service on the California Zephyr to daily.
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November events
- November 11 - An faulty heater aboard a funicular train in Kaprun, Austria, starts a fire in the train's brake fluid while the train is in a tunnel; only four of the train's 155 passengers survived the fire in the Kaprun disaster.
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Unknown date events
- Robert Krebs resigns as Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
- The fourth and final phase of Cairo Metro's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
- Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway and Canadian National Railway file for a merger, but the merger is denied by regulatory agencies.
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Deaths
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References
- Some of the events listed here were translated from 2000 dans les chemins de fer, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 30 2005.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division (May 23 2000), General Motors' Electro Motive ships first five locomotives for huge Union Pacific order. Retrieved April 13 2005.
- Green, Timothy C. (September 1 2004), Train Scan August 2000. Retrieved July 7 2005.