1912 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1912.

Events

Unknown date events

• The Florida East Coast Railway opens its rail connection to Key West.
• Pennsylvania Railroad debuts the Broadway Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York.
• Oliver Robert Hawke Bury steps down from the General Manager position at the Great Northern Railway in England.

Births

Unknown date births

• W. Graham Claytor, president of the Southern Railway 1967–1977 and Amtrak.

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

• Eli H. Janney, inventor of the knuckle coupler (b. 1831).

References

• (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 2005.
• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22 2005.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9–15.