This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1941. Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ... 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... Jump to: navigation, search This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1940. ... This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1942. ... Trains can travel at very high speed, are heavy, are unable to deviate from the track and require a great distance to stop. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

February events

• February 11 - The first Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.

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July events

• July 7 - Deutche Reichsbahn accepts delivery of an experimental “V-8” steam locomotive from the Henschel Locomotive Works. Nominally a 2-8-2, the locomotive had four sets of two cylinders in a 90 degree “V” shape on the ends of each drive axle, alternating from side to side. Captured by the Allies, it was tested in the U.S. before being scrapped in 1952.
• July - Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from active service on the City of Portland and placed in storage.

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August events

• August 14 - Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 streamliner trainset is sold for scrap.

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September events

• September 5 - The first Alco 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy” steam locomotive is delivered to the Union Pacific at Omaha.

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October events

• October - Robert E. Woodruff becomes president of the Erie Railroad.

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November events

• November 17 - The Prospector multiple unit passenger trainset debuts on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in operating between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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December events

• December 7 - The New York Central Railroad, with much fanfare, launches a new Empire State Express. The bombing of Pearl Harbor puts an immediate damper on the planned festivities.
• December 9 - Chesapeake & Ohio officials accept the first 2-6-6-6 “Allegheny” steam locomotive from the Lima Locomotive Works. Despite many claims made by Alco, Union Pacific and others for the 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy”, the “Alleghenies” are the largest steam locomotives ever built for service in the United States.
• December 19 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Columbian passenger train route is extended frm Jersey City-Washington to Jersey City-Chicago.

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Unknown date events

• Armand Mercier succeeds Angus Daniel McDonald as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad
• The Heisler Locomotive Works produces the last Heisler locomotive.
• The Hollywood, a lounge car built for use on the City of Los Angeles becomes the first passenger car whose interior is built entirely out of synthetic materials. The car's interior featured the newly invented materials of formica and naugahyde.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD TR1.

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Births

Deaths

April deaths

• April 5 - Nigel Gresley, Chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway 1923–1941 (b. 1876).

Jump to: navigation, search April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) was one of Britains most famous Steam locomotive engineers who worked for the Great Northern Railway company from 1911 to 1922 as locomotive superintendent and for the London and North Eastern Railway company (LNER) from 1923 to 1941 as... Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British railway companies to persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives. ... The London and North Eastern Railway or LNER was the second-largest of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Unknown date deaths

• Angus Daniel McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1932–1941 (b. 1878).
• Alonzo C. Mather, founder of Mather Stock Car Company, designed the first widely-recognized humane stock car (b. 1848).
• Frederick Methvan Whyte, mechanical engineer for the New York Central railroad, creator of Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives (b. 1865).

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References

• Dieffenbacher, Jane (2002), Mather Family of Fairfield, NY. Retrieved March 24, 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• The McDonald bloodline. Retrieved February 15, 2005.
• (December 9, 2004), Sir Nigel Gresley. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
• Wayner, Robert J., ed. (1972). Car Names, Numbers and Consists, Wayner Publications, New York, NY.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
• Yenne, Bill (1985). The history of the Southern Pacific, Bonanza, New York, NY.