1922 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1922.

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]

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 8 – Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée first runs the Calais-Mediterranée Express, 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

March births

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

July births

• July 20 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak.

Unknown date births

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

References

1. Beck, Wayne (1957). "The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway". Archived from the original on 2009-10-18. Retrieved 2006-05-17.
2. Davis, Colin J. (1977). Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06612-X.
3. Anastasiadou, Irene (2005). "International Railway Organization in 19th and 20th century Europe" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
4. Koch, Michael (1971). The Shay Locomotive: Titan of the Timber. The World Press. p. 467.
5. "Railway Statistics 2008" (pdf). Norwegian National Rail Administration. 2009. p. 34. Retrieved 28 April 2010.