1972 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1972.

Events

January events

• January – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD40–2.

September events

• September 11 – Revenue service begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• September 27 – Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.

Unknown date events

• The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railway become parts of the Chessie System.
• The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway is officially merged into the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
• Donald Russell steps down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The position remains vacant until 1976.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces computer control systems in its line of diesel locomotives with the EMD SD40–2.
• Fred Burbidge succeeds Ian David Sinclair as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
• The Family Lines System is formed through the merger of several eastern and southeastern United States railroads.

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