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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1923.
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Events
January events
- January – The Canadian National Railway absorbs the Grand Trunk Railway and spins off the portion of the Grand Trunk within the United States to form the Grand Trunk Western Railroad; CN operates GTW as a subsidiary railroad.
July events
- July 15 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
Unknown date events
- The Interstate Commerce Commission allows the Southern Pacific Railroad's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that the control is in the public's interest.
- George Hughes succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway
- The city of Glasgow, Scotland takes over operations of the Glasgow Subway.
- The Munising, Marquette and South Eastern Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway merge to form the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad.
Births
Unknown date births
- Robert R. Dowty, construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (d. 2004).
- Margaret Landry Moore, "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger trains (d. 2005). [1]
- Frank Turpin, CEO of Alaska Railroad, 1985–1993 (d. 2005). [2]
Deaths
April deaths
- April 10 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central 1887–1907 (b. 1851).
May deaths
- May 16 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (b. 1864).
December deaths
- December 5 – Sir William Mackenzie, part owner of Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (b. 1849).
References
- Loy, Wesley, Anchorage Daily News (April 30 2005), Frank Turpin, railroad, oil leader, dies. Retrieved May 4 2005.
- A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9 2005.
- Trains News Wire (April 27 2005), Miss Southern Belle dies. Retrieved May 4 2005.
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