1995 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1995.
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Events
January events
- January – David Gunn becomes commissioner of the Toronto Transit Commission.
April events
- April 12 – The Chicago and Northwestern is merged into the Union Pacific Railroad.
August events
- August 11 – The first fatal accident on Toronto's subway system, under the auspices of the Toronto Transit Commission, claims three lives.
September events
- September 4 – The F Market heritage streetcar line in San Francisco opens using restored PCC streetcars.
Unknown date events
- The Burlington Northern Railroad and the Santa Fe Railroad merge to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
- The Interstate Commerce Commission in the United States is dissolved; many of the railroad duties performed by the ICC are transferred to the newly formed Surface Transportation Board.
- The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad expands through the purchase of former Chicago and Northwestern Railway branch lines from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Colony, Wyoming, and Crawford, Nebraska.
- Michael R. Haverty leaves the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway presidency to become president of the Kansas City Southern Railway.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD90MAC
Deaths
References
- Vantuono, William C. (January 2001), Mike Haverty, Railroader of the Year. Retrieved March 25 2005.
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