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Years in rail transport
1921 in rail transport
1922 in rail transport
1923 in rail transport
Timeline of railway history
This article lists events related to
rail transport
that occurred in 1922.
Events
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May events
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May 17 – The
Arkansas Short Line Railroad
, a predecessor of
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
, is incorporated.
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1
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July events
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July 1 – The
Great Railroad Strike of 1922
begins in the
United States
, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven
cents
per day mandated by the
Railroad Labor Board
. Continues until September 1.
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2
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August events
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August 31 –
H. L. Hamilton
and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become
General Motors Electro-Motive Division
) in
Cleveland, Ohio
.
October events
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October –
International Union of Railways
(UIC) established in
Paris
to promote co-operation and standardisation.
[
3
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October 22 –
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
(first stage) opened in Germany.
November events
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The first
Willamette locomotive
is built for Coos Bay Lumber Company of
Marshfield, Oregon
.
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4
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July 26 – The
Drammen Line
in Norway takes electric traction into use between
Oslo West Station
and
Brakerøya
.
[
5
]
December events
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December 9 –
Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée
resumes the Calais-Mediterranée Express, now known as
Le Train Bleu
because of its
Wagons-Lits
cars, between
Calais
Gare Maritime and
Menton
on the
French Riviera
.
Unknown date events
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The
New York Central
acquires the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
(the
Big Four
Railroad).
Sir
Henry Thornton
succeeds
David Blyth Hanna
as president of
Canadian National Railway
.
George Hughes
succeeds
H. P. M. Beames
as
Chief Mechanical Engineer
of the
London and North Western Railway
.
Births
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February births
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February 27 –
Robert B. Claytor
, president of
Norfolk and Western Railway
(died 1993)
March births
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March 22 –
Livio Dante Porta
,
Argentinian
steam locomotive
mechanical engineer (died 2003)
July births
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July 20 –
Alan Stephenson Boyd
, first
United States Secretary of Transportation
1966–1969, president of
Illinois Central Railroad
1969-1972, president of
Amtrak
(died 2020)
Deaths
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Main article:
Deaths in 1922
Further information:
Category:1922 deaths
See also
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List of rail accidents (1920–1929)
References
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^
Beck, Wayne (1957).
"The History of St. Louis Southwestern Railway"
. Archived from
the original
on 2009-10-18
. Retrieved
2006-05-17
.
^
Davis, Colin J. (1977).
Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-06612-X
.
^
Anastasiadou, Irene (2005).
"International Railway Organization in 19th and 20th century Europe"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2007-10-20
. Retrieved
2007-07-17
.
^
Koch, Michael (1971).
The Shay Locomotive: Titan of the Timber
. The World Press. p. 467.
^
"Railway Statistics 2008"
(PDF)
.
Norwegian National Rail Administration
. 2009. p. 34. Archived from
the original
(pdf)
on 22 November 2010
. Retrieved
28 April
2010
.
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