1943 in rail transport

Events

January events

April events

May events

June events

July events

August events

September events

October events

November events

December events

  • December 16 – Two Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains collide after a broken rail derails the first one, putting it in the path of the second. Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops.
  • The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads.

Unknown date events

Births

September births

Deaths

February deaths

June deaths

References

  1. Tourret, R. (1976). War Department Locomotives. Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War, Book 1. Abingdon: Tourret. ISBN 0-905878-00-0.
  2. "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2006-03-17. Archived from the original on 8 July 2006. Retrieved 2006-07-14.
  3. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History: August". Retrieved 2006-08-25.
  4. Jones, Robert C. (1998). Two Feet to the Quarries. Evergreen Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-9667264-0-5.
  5. Graham, Garfield. "State Street subway". Chicago L. chicago-l.org. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  6. Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.
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