1951 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1951.
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Events
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January events
- January 11 - The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues passenger train service.
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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.
- Earnest E. Norris is succeeded by Harry A. deButts as president of the Southern Railway.
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Births
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Deaths
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March deaths
- March 2 - Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (b. 1877).
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References
- Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers (http://www.steamindex.com/people/engrs.htm). Retrieved February 9 2005.
- Norfolk Southern Railway (http://pages.ivillage.com/generaljim1/theerielackawannalimited/id19.html). Retrieved February 22 2005.
