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1957 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1957.

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January

  • January 1 – The Chicago and North Western Railway leases the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (the Omaha Road).
  • January 12 – Operations of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains are combined during off-peak seasons.
  • January 22 – Last day of steam locomotive operations on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

    • February

  • February 7 – Southern Pacific 2-6-4 number 2472 (now preserved) is retired from revenue service.

    • March

  • March 17 – The Milwaukee Road operates its last steam locomotive.
  • March 29 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway is abandoned, the largest single railroad abandonment in the United States (541 mi (871 km)).
  • March 29 – The Central Vermont Railway dieselizes.

    • April

  • April 7 – New York City trolleys run for the last time.

    • May

  • May 7 – The Flying Yankee trainset is retired from revenue service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads.
  • May 17 – Canadian National Railway opens a new track alignment between Toronto and Montreal to make way for construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

    • June

  • June 2 – First Trans Europ Express diesel trains run on the continent.
  • June 6 – Pere Marquette Railroad steam locomotive 4-8-2 number 1225 is given to Michigan State University for display on campus.

    • July

  • July 3 – The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad abruptly ceases to carry passengers at 12:13pm.
  • July 11 – Southern Pacific Railroad’s Colton Cutoff around Los Angeles is opened to traffic.
  • July 27 – The Musquodoboit Railway ends steam locomotive operations with a round trip between Dartmouth and Upper Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, behind CN number 3409.

    • August

  • August 27 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway retires its last steam locomotive.

    • September

  • September 1 – 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.
  • September 7 – The Pennsylvania Railroad discontinues the Morning Steeler passenger train between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio.
  • September 28 – Newtown Tram Depot in Sydney is closed.

    • October

  • October 6 – The Chicago "L" Stock Yards branch serving Union Stock Yards is closed.
  • October 21 – Two trains collide in Turkey; 95 die.
  • October 31 – Canadian National Railway receives authorization to operate the former New York Central Railroad (NYC) lines in Ottawa, Ontario, to reach industries that were originally served by NYC.

    • November

  • November 1 – Class I railroads report they roster 27,108 diesel and 2,697 steam locomotives. An additional 721 steam locomotives are in storage.
  • November 15 – A first section of Nagoya Municipal Subway, Nagoya Station to Sakae Station route start operation in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

    • December

  • December 31 – The Southern Railway (US) runs its last steam locomotive.

    • Unknown date

  • William N. Deramus III becomes president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
  • Estación Federico Lacroze in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens.
  • The California State Legislature establishes the five-county San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
  • Pandrol clip patented by Norwegian railway engineer Per Pande Rolfsen.

    • March deaths

  • March 9 – Robert Whitelegg, locomotive superintendent for London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 1910-1912, and for Glasgow and South Western Railway 1918-1923, general manager of Beyer, Peacock and Company 1923-1929, dies (b. 1871).

    • July deaths

  • July 13 - Sim Webb, Casey Jones' fireman on the famous run (born 1874).

    • References

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