1943 in rail transport - Definition

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1943.

Events

May events

• May - After a year of revenue service, Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from service; its power car is separated from its unpowered cars and the components are reused elsewhere.

Unknown date events

• The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America, opens for railroad service.
• After a few years of only producing diesel engines for the United States Navy during World War II, General Motors Electro-Motive Division returns to manufacturing railroad locomotives.
• The last PRR GG1 to be built is completed.
• A journal box on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional passenger train overheats and falls off causing a derailment that resulted in 79 fatalities.

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