1953, 1954, 1955

1953 in rail transport 1954 in rail transport 1955 in rail transport

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1954.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 May events 1.4 December events 1.5 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 December deaths

Events

January events

• January - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F9.

February events

• February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP9.

May events

• May - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E9.

December events

• December - Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad open the new Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee.
• December - Pullman-Standard builds the first bilevel commuter coaches for the Southern Pacific Railroad to use in the south San Francisco Bay Area.

Unknown date events

• The Vanderbilt interests lose a proxy fight for continued control of the New York Central to Robert Ralph Young and his Alleghany Corporation.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD GP9.

Births

Deaths

December deaths

• December 15 - Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1884).