- 1959 in rail transport
Events
January events
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January 4 - Passenger service resumes on theStrasburg Rail Road for tourists.March events
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March 28 - TheNiagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway , the lastinterurban railroad inCanada , operates its last revenue train.February events
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February 28 - TheEastern Region of British Railways closes most of the formerMidland and Great Northern Joint Railway . [cite book|author=Wrottesley, A. J. F.|date=1970|title=The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=0-7153-4340-8]April events
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April 3 - Construction begins onJapanese National Railways ’Tōkaidō Shinkansen betweenOsaka andTokyo .
*SAFEGE test monorail built inFrance .June events
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June 9 - TheChicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad , commuter railway serving Chicago's westernsuburb s, ceases operations.
*June 15 - TheDisneyland Monorail System built byAlweg opens, making it the first daily operating monorail system in thewestern hemisphere .
*June 21 -Soo Line 2719 hauls the last ofSoo Line Railroad 'ssteam locomotive -powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion betweenMinneapolis, Minnesota , andLadysmith, Wisconsin .cite journal| author=Gilchinski, Steve| year=1997| month=February| title=Soo Line 2-8-2 back in steam| journal=Trains magazine| volume=57| issue=2| pages=24–25| id=| url=| ]July events
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July 14 -Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)0-6-0 number 5244, class B-6sb, becomes the laststeam locomotive to operate on the PRR.
*July 18 - The laststeam locomotive runs on theNickel Plate Road as a pair of0-8-0 switcher s are called out to cover a traffic surge.August events
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August 30 -Streetcar service inMontreal ,Canada is discontinued.October events
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October 6 - TheCarmelit ,Haifa 's undergroundfunicular railway , opens.
*October 28 - TheCanadian National Railway line between St. Felicien and Chibougamau,Quebec , opens.December events
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December 1 - TheVirginian Railway is merged into theNorfolk and Western Railroad .Unknown date events
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General Electric announces that it will begin manufacturingdiesel locomotives on its own.
*ACF Industries completes the last passenger car that it is to build.
* TheOttawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway runs its last train, ending 62 years of service.Births
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References
* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005 ), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". RetrievedAugust 30 andOctober 28 2005 .
* Suspended - SAFEGE " [http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/TPSafege.html Technical Page - Safege] ". RetrievedMay 25 2008 .
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