1923 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1923.

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.