1951 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1951.

Events

Unknown date events

• Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico is sold to the Mexican government.
• Armand Mercier steps down from the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
• The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's streamlined Comet passenger trainset (built in 1935) is retired from revenue service and scrapped.
• Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima-Hamilton merge to form Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton.
• Earnest E. Norris is succeeded by Harry A. deButts as president of the Southern Railway.

Births

Deaths

March deaths

• March 2 – Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (b. 1877).

References

• Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9 2005.
• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22 2005.