This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1926.
March 14 - El Virilla train accident in Costa Rica kills 248 people.
May 1 - Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) is formed as a joint venture between the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) and the Fruit Growers Express (FGE).
May 3 - U.K. General Strike commences, continuing to affect railways until May 12.
May 8 - A. Philip Randolph organizes the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, considered a major labor as well as civil rights milestone.
May 20 - The United States Railway Labor Act becomes law.
July 6 - First electric railway in the Soviet Union opened, connecting Baku, Azerbaijan, with its oil workers’ suburban settlements.
July 9 - The first use of a radiotelephone on a train, on the New York Central Railroad.
July 23 - Law enacted to nationalize rail transport in Belgium fully as Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges/Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen.
August - The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") introduces the Arrow passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska.
September 12 - Chemin de Fer du Nord introduces Flèche d’Or all-first-class Pullman boat train service between Paris and Calais, France.
October 10 – Yachihata Station in Japan is opened.
December 20 – Opening of first section of underground railway in Australia, the City Circle between Central and St. James railway stations in Sydney (John Bradfield (engineer)).
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad gains control of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad.
American Car and Foundry acquires J. G. Brill and Company.
October 20 - Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader, founding member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, founder of the American Railway Union, arrested during the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois (born 1855).
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