1904 in rail transport

1903, 1904, 1905

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1904.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 March events 1.2 July events 1.3 October events 1.4 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

March events

• March 8 - The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline.
• March 20 - The Southern Pacific Railroad completes the Coast Line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA.

July events

• July 21 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.

October events

• October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens; the system is now the largest in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.

Unknown date events

• The Tidewater Railway is chartered in Virginia.
• American Locomotive Company purchases the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Canada, which soon became Montreal Locomotive Works.
• The United States government purchases the Panama Railway from the French canal company Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique.
• Lucius E. Johnson succeeds Frederick J. Kimball as president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
• American Car and Foundry builds the first all-steel passenger car in the world; the car is delivered to the Interborough Rapid Transit system of New York City as the first car in an order of 300.
• American Car and Foundry acquires Southern Car and Foundry of Memphis, Tennessee.

Births

Deaths

See also: 1904 in rail transport, 1903, 1903 in rail transport, 1904, 1905, 1905 in rail transport, American Car and Foundry, American Locomotive Company, Canada