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1891 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (344 words) |
 | This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1891. |
| April 19 - a fatal collision in Kipton, Ohio between a freight train and a passenger train, attributed to a faulty engineer's pocket watch which stopped for 4 minutes. |
| It is one of the most extensive rail disasters in American history, yet only three people are killed. |
| Rebuilding U.S. Rail System Is Top Priority (3119 words) |
| The breakdown of the U.S. rail transportation system, for both passengers and freight, threatens the operation of the American physical economy and the integrity of the United States as a nation. |
| On the freight rail side, for Class I rail companies (the biggest ones), comparing 1980 to 2000, forty percent of the track has been contracted, 27% of the locomotives have been furloughed, and 63% of the labor force has been fired. |
| The culminating assault against rail occurred in the "post-industrial society" shift which began in the second half of the 1960s, and became an avalanche of industrial destruction with the 1970s oil hoaxes and the Federal Reserve "interest rate shock" of 1979-80. |
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