1951 in rail transport

1950, 1951, 1952

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1951.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 March deaths 4 References

Events

January events

• January 11 - The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues passenger train service.

Unknown date events

• Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico is sold to the Mexican government.
• Armand Mercier steps down from the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
• The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's streamlined Comet passenger trainset (built in 1935) is retired from revenue service and scrapped.
• Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima-Hamilton merge to form Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton.
• Earnest E. Norris is succeeded by Harry A. deButts as president of the Southern Railway.

Births

Deaths

March deaths

• March 2 - Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (b. 1877).

References

• Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9 2005.
• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22 2005.

See also: 1951 in rail transport, 1877, 1935, 1950, 1950 in rail transport, 1951, 1952, 1952 in rail transport, 2005