1936 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1936.

Events

March events

• March 25 - The 200-inch mirror blank for the Palomar observatory begins its cross-country trip aboard a special railroad car.

May events

• May 11 - Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft's BR 05 class locomotive number 05 002 sets the world's speed record at 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on a run between Hamburg and Berlin.
• May 12 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
• May 15 - The first City of Los Angeles passenger train makes its debut, using the streamliner trainset M-10002, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.
• May 17 - Illinois Central’s streamliner “Green Diamond” makes its debut, running between Chicago, Illionos and St. Louis Missouri.
• May 20 - The first diesel locomotive rolls out of EMD’s LaGrange plant in McCook Illinois: a 100-ton, 600-horsepower switcher built for the Santa Fe Railroad.
• May - Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the first of the M-10003-6 streamliner power cars.

June events

• June 14 - The M-10004 streamliner trainset enters service on the City of San Francisco passenger train.
• June 18 - The first City of Denver passenger train makes its debut running from Chicago, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.

July events

• July 15 - The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.

August events

• August 1 - The New Haven Railroad tests a new streamliner: a two-car Besler steam motor train.

September events

• September 18 - Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.

October events

• October - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Sam Houston Zephyr passenger train.

November events

• November 8 - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Denver Zephyr passenger train.

December events

• December 18 - The Twin Cities Zephyr, an articulated trainset pulled by an EMD E5, is placed into service between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• December - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad inaugurates the Ozark State Zephyr passenger train.

Unknown date events

• Illinois Central's Green Diamond trainset is built by Pullman-Standard .
• Bruce Church, T. R. Merrill, Gene Harden and Ken Nutting form the Growers Ice Company to ship bulk carloads of lettuce by rail from Salinas, California

Births

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

• Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Mantis, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (b. 1879).

References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved September 18 2005.
• Wayner, Robert J., ed. (1972). Car Names, Numbers and Consists. New York: Wayner Publications.

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