1924 in rail transport

1923, 1924, 1925

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1924.

Events

March 12 – Electrification is completed on what is now Hamburg S-Bahn's Line 1 between Ohlsdorf and Poppenbüttel.
March 31 – American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry.

May 8 – Arthur Honegger’s “Pacifica 231” premieres. The orchestral tone poem reflects Honegger’s impressions of steam engines.

August 7 – Streetcars operate for the last time in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to be replaced with buses.
August 14 – The New York Central tests a General Electric diesel-electric locomotive. The locomotive succeeds in starting a train of 93 cars on level track.

September 28 – The Chicago and Alton Railroad places "the handsomest train in the world" into Chicago – St. Louis service. The red painted, million dollar train competes with Illinois Central Railroad's green and black Daylight Special and Wabash's blue Blue Banner Special.

October 23 – Two trolley cars of the Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa collide head-on due to a misunderstanding in operations around track maintenance work.^[3]

December 17 – The first Diesel-electric locomotive enters service, on the docks in the Bronx.

ALCO produces its first diesel locomotive using electrical components from General Electric.
The first section of the Barcelona Metro opens.

Michiganrailroads.com, Railroad history timeline - 1920s. Retrieved June 28, 2005.
Williamsport Bureau of Transportation (2005), History of Mass Transit in Williamsport. Retrieved August 7, 2005.

^ Ferneyhough, Frank (1975). The History of Railways in Britain. Reading: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-060-8.
^ "Railroad History Timeline: 1920-1929". RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1920s/TimeLine1920sBackUp.htm. Retrieved on March 12, 2009.
^ "Head on at Deschenes". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/Article2002_2.html. Retrieved on October 23, 2006.