1931 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1931.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 May events 1.2 November events 1.3 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 Unknown date births 3 Deaths

Events

May events

• May 24 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates the first air conditioned passenger train, the Columbian, between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.

November events

• November 12 - The Smithsonian Institution commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull by operating its mechanism with compressed air.

Unknown date events

• Ernest Lemon succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Births

Unknown date births

• Nelson W. Bowers, president of the National Railway Historical Society (1983-1987) (d. 2004).

Deaths

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