1916 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1916.

Events

April events

• April 13 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his younger brother Mantis James Van Sweringen purchase a 75% controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road from William Kissam Vanderbilt for 8.5 million dollars.

September events

• September 30 – Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.

Unknown date events

• The Pennsylvania Railroad adopts the motto "the Standard Railroad of the World".
• The first I1s 2–10–0 "Decapod" locomotive is completed.
• The Pennsylvania Railroad's first A5s 0–4–0 and B6sb switching locomotives enter service.
• Joel Coffin purchases Lima Locomotive Corporation; the company is renamed Lima Locomotive Works.
• The first all-steel fish car is built for use on American railroads.

Births

Unknown date births

• Benjamin F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Company 1964–1976.

Deaths

May deaths

• May 29 – James J. Hill, American financier who gained control of the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway (b. 1838).

References

• U.S. Government Printing Office (1979), The Fish Car Era of the National Fish Hatchery System. Retrieved March 28 2005.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9–15.