This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1929. Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Years in rail transport include: 1800 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843... This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1928. ... This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1930. ... A railway yard in Portland, Oregon. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

March events

• March 1 - Sixty-nine railroads buy the American Railway Express Company and rename it Railway Express Agency.

March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... The Railway Express Agency was a rail express service, at one point the only one in the United States. ...

May events

• May - Charles E. Denny succeeds John J. Bernet as president of the Erie Railroad.^[1]

The Erie Railroad (AAR reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, connecting New York City with Lake Erie, and extending west to Cleveland, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois. ...

July events

• July 7 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad begin air/rail service between New York and Los Angeles. Trip time is cut from 100 to 80 hours.

July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the largest railroads in the United States. ... 1893 map The Pennsylvania Railroad (AAR reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad that was founded in 1846 and merged in 1968 into Penn Central Transportation. ...

August events

• August 6 - The Ghan begins operation in Australia under its current name.
• August 26 - For the first time, Canadian National Railway uses diesel locomotives to power a passenger train, with unit number 9000 on the second section of the International Limited between Montreal and Toronto.

August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... Current route map of the Ghan The Ghan, short for The Afghan, is the 48-hour, 2,979-km passenger service on the Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin Central Australian Railway in Australia. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. ... Diesel locomotives became the dominant type of locomotive in rail transport in the mid 20th century in much of the world. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ... The International was the name of two different passenger trains. ... Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Québec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ...

November events

• November 1 - The Southern Railway celebrates the 21st "birthday" of the Southern Belle passenger train with ceremonies at each end of the train's route between London and Brighton.^[2]

November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom was geographically the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act 1921. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ...

December events

• December 10 - Ottawa Electric Railway discontinues streetcar service between Carling Avenue and the Experimental Farm.^[3]

December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ... a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ...

Unknown date events

• Paul Shoup takes over the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad on January 1st, 1929 (as per http://www.cprr.org/Museum/SP_1869-1944/index.html)
• Henry deForest assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company.
• ALCO purchases McIntosh and Seymour Diesel Engine Company for further manufacturing of diesel engines that will be installed in subsequent ALCO locomotives.
• The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad ends passenger train operations.

The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ... Henry deForest was an American railroad executive. ... The American Locomotive Company, shortened to ALCo was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States. ... A Diesel engine built by MAN AG in 1906 Rudolf Diesels 1893 patent on his engine design The diesel engine is a type of internal combustion engine. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad (LS & I), an American railroad offering service from Marquette, Michigan to nearby locations in Michigans Upper Peninsula, began operations in 1896. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ...

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References

1. ^ Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
2. ^ Hill, Keith (February 2005). "Brighton's Belle Époque". BackTrack 19 (2): 70–79.
3. ^ Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 3, 2004). Retrieved on 2005-12-08.

• Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005). Retrieved on 2005-08-26.
• A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved on 2005-05-09.