1993 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

1992, 1993, 1994

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1993.

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1 Events

Events

August 27 - The Green Bay and Western and the Fox River Valley Railroad are merged into a new Wisconsin Central subsidiary, the Fox Valley and Western Railroad.

September 22 - Amtrak's worst rail accident to date occurs in the Big Bayou Conot train disaster when the westbound Sunset Limited derails on a bridge in Alabama; the cause of the accident is found to be a collision between a river barge and one of the bridge's pilings knocking the rail out of alignment on the bridge.

The Monongahela Railway is merged into Conrail.
The Chicago 'L' Orange Line to Midway Airport opens.
Milwaukee Road 261 is restored to operating condition.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, operator of the Metro Rail system in Los Angeles, California, is formed from the merger of the Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD) and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTC).

Example Usage of transport
	Charlie91xo: I'll listen to that! RT @Alexuh I watched Banged Up Abroad earlier. NEVER transport ILLEGAL DRUGS, NO MATTER WHAT <- good advice from Alex.
	thecraigmorris: @eiks yeah, exactly-literally made my train with 3 minutes to spare, and loved the transport museum, wished we'd had more time
	fishgeekted: Corporate Vision: 1 minute feed breaks via nutra pouch stored in uniform pocket & transport tube woven in sleeve. Do you want to know more?

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