1922 in rail transport explained

Events

May events

• May 17 – The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.^[1]

July events

• July 1 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board. Continues until September 1.^[2]

August events

• August 31 – H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio.

October events

• October – International Union of Railways (UIC) established in Paris to promote co-operation and standardisation.^[3]
• October 22 – Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (first stage) opened in Germany.

November events

• The first Willamette locomotive is built for Coos Bay Lumber Company of Marshfield, Oregon.^[4]
• July 26 – The Drammen Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo West Station and Brakerøya.^[5]

December events

• December 9 – Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée resumes the Calais-Mediterranée Express, now known as Le Train Bleu because of its Wagons-Lits cars, between Calais Gare Maritime and Menton on the French Riviera.

Unknown date events

• The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad).
• Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
• George Hughes succeeds H. P. M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.

Births

February births

• February 27 – Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway (died 1993)

March births

• March 22 – Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (died 2003)

July births

• July 20 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak (died 2020)

See also

• List of rail accidents (1920–1929)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway . Beck . Wayne . 1957 . 2006-05-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091018232359/http://us.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html . 2009-10-18 . dead .
2. Book: Davis, Colin J.. 1977. Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. University of Illinois Press. Urbana. 0-252-06612-X.
3. Web site: Anastasiadou . Irene . International Railway Organization in 19th and 20th century Europe . 2005 . 2007-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071020165038/http://www.tie-project.nl/publications/pdf/wd%209%20Anastasiadou.pdf . 2007-10-20 . dead .
4. Book: Koch, Michael. The Shay Locomotive: Titan of the Timber. The World Press. 1971. 467.
5. Web site: Railway Statistics 2008 . . 2009 . pdf . 28 April 2010 . 34 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122071524/http://www.jernbaneverket.no/PageFiles/7894/Jernbanestatistikk%202008_22%20juni_web.pdf . 22 November 2010 .