1954 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1954.
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Events
January events
- January – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F9.
February events
- February – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP9.
May events
- May – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E9.
December events
- December – Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad open the new Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee.
- December – Pullman-Standard builds the first bilevel commuter coaches for the Southern Pacific Railroad to use in the south San Francisco Bay Area.
Unknown date events
- The Vanderbilt interests lose a proxy fight for continued control of the New York Central to Robert Ralph Young and his Alleghany Corporation.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD GP9.
- American Car and Foundry officially changes its name to ACF Industries, Inc.
Births
Deaths
December deaths
- December 15 – Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1884).
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