1918 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1918.

Events

September events

• September 6 - The Canadian Northern Railway is nationalized, later to become part of Canadian National Railway.

November events

• November 1 - The Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in New York City when an inexperienced motorman (pressed into service due to a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) drives one of the system's trains into a curve too quickly and derails the train.

Unknown date events

• Julius Krutschnitt succeeds William Sproule as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
• Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty succeeds Thomas George Shaughnessy as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.

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