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EVENTS

January events

January 18 - “ The Harvey Girls ”, a movie starring Judy Garland and Ray Bolger and set in a Harvey House Hotel , makes its American debut. The movie will win an Oscar for Best Song for Johnny Mercer ’s “On The Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe”.

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February events

February 1 - Henry G. Ivatt is promoted to Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland And Scottish Railway , succeeding Charles Fairburn .

February 20 - Pullman Standard delivers the first Passenger Car built after World War II .

March events

March 29 - The north end of Ottawa 's Interprovincial Bridge is destroyed by fire, severing Château Laurier from Hull Electric Railway passenger service.¹

April events

's '' Advance Flyer '', stopped in the station, is rammed by the railroad's '' Exposition Flyer ''. 45 killed, more than 100 injured.

May events

May 17 - President Harry Truman seizes control of the railroads to prevent a nationwide Strike .

May 30 - After a short Strike earlier in the month, Hudson And Manhattan Railroad trainmen go on strike again when the Pennsylvania Railroad (which owned the H&M at this time) management decides that the recent PRR pay increase does not apply to H&M employees.

June events

June 20 - First use of a Public Address System on a Passenger Train for station announcements. The system was installed in a New York City Subway Car .

July events

July - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F2 .

August events

August 10 - The Pere Marquette Railroad inaugurates the '' Pere Marquette '' Passenger Train between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan .

August 24 - The Boston And Maine Railroad replaces Electric Locomotive operation through the Hoosac Tunnel with Diesel Locomotive s.

September events

September 29 - The Illinois Central Railroad fully dieselizes all Passenger Train s that it is operating between Chicago, Illinois , and St. Louis, Missouri .

December events

December 7 - The power car from the M-10002 Streamliner trainset is sold to Northrup-Hendy for Gas Turbine train testing.

December 8 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD NW5 .

December 23 - 8,872,244 ride the New York City Subway system, the current one-day record.

Unknown date events

General Electric builds the Electric Locomotive model that will soon become known as the Little Joe

John W. Barriger III becomes president of the Monon Railroad .

The Atlanta, Birmingham And Coast Railroad is merged into the Atlantic Coast Line .

The Chesapeake And Ohio Railroad , under the direction of Robert R. Young , places the largest single Passenger Car order with Pullman-Standard for nearly 300 cars. These cars entered service beginning in 1950 . p. 69.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March deaths

March 21 - Oliver Robert Hawke Bury , Chief Mechanical Engineer and manager of Great Western Railway Of Brazil 1892 – 1894 , general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902 – 1912 , Director of the London And North Eastern Railway 1912 – 1945 (b. 1861 ).

November deaths

November 10 - Patrick H. Joyce , president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, dies (b. 1879 ).

REFERENCES

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Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .