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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 2.
Events
[edit]19th century
[edit]- 1868 – William F. Nast succeeds Samuel C. Pomeroy as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
20th century
[edit]- 1913 – Traveling at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) in heavy fog north of New Haven, Connecticut, the White Mountain Express crashes through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express and overturns a third coach, killing 21 and injuring 50.[1]
- 1922 – The Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway (a predecessor of Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway) is formed in Japan.
- 1940 – Kansas City Southern Railway inaugurates the Southern Belle passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
21st century
[edit]- 2004 – Robert R. Dowty, construction foreman for the replica Jupiter and 119 steam locomotives at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah, dies (b. 1923).
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- 1877 – Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804).
References
[edit]- ^ "Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision". New York Times. September 3, 1913. Retrieved December 21, 2013.