1959 in rail transport

1959 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 4 - Passenger service resumes on the Strasburg Rail Road for tourists.

March events

* March 28 - The Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, the last interurban railroad in Canada, operates its last revenue train.

February events

* February 28 - The Eastern Region of British Railways closes most of the former Midland 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

* April 3 - Construction begins on Japanese National RailwaysTōkaidō Shinkansen between Osaka and Tokyo.
* SAFEGE test monorail built in France.

June events

* June 9 - The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, commuter railway serving Chicago's western suburbs, ceases operations.
* June 15 - The Disneyland Monorail System built by Alweg opens, making it the first daily operating monorail system in the western hemisphere.
* June 21 - Soo Line 2719 hauls the last of Soo Line Railroad's steam locomotive-powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ladysmith, 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

* July 14 - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 0-6-0 number 5244, class B-6sb, becomes the last steam locomotive to operate on the PRR.
* July 18 - The last steam locomotive runs on the Nickel Plate Road as a pair of 0-8-0 switchers are called out to cover a traffic surge.

August events

* August 30 - Streetcar service in Montreal, Canada is discontinued.

October events

* October 6 - The Carmelit, Haifa's underground funicular railway, opens.
* October 28 - The Canadian National Railway line between St. Felicien and Chibougamau, Quebec, opens.

December events

* December 1 - The Virginian Railway is merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

Unknown date events

* General Electric announces that it will begin manufacturing diesel locomotives on its own.
* ACF Industries completes the last passenger car that it is to build.
* The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway runs its last train, ending 62 years of service.

Births

Deaths

References


* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved August 30 and October 28 2005.
* Suspended - SAFEGE " [http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/TPSafege.html Technical Page - Safege] ". Retrieved May 25 2008.


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