1951 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1951.

Events

Unknown date events

• Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico is sold to the Mexican government.
• Armand Mercier steps down from the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
• The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's streamlined Comet passenger trainset (built in 1935) is retired from revenue service and scrapped.
• Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima-Hamilton merge to form Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton.

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