1953 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1953.
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Events
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January events
- January 15 - The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad's westbound Federal Express passenger train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster's office at Union Station in Washington, DC, but nobody is killed in the accident.
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March events
- March - Union Pacific Railroad removes the streamliner trainset M-10003 from revenue service.
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May events
- May 30 - The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway runs its last passenger trains.
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June events
- June 16 - New York Central ends steam locomotive operation on the former Michigan Central Railroad with a train pulled by 4-6-4 number 5434. [1] (http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1950s/TimeLine1950sBackUp.htm)
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December events
- December 19, 1953 – Sydenham Rail Disaster; an electric passenger train of the New South Wales Railways run into the rear of another electric train. Five people were killed and 748 injured.
- December 24 1953 – Šakvice train disaster, Czech Republic: Express train whose crew fell asleep after several bottles of wine hits commuter train at a station, killing 106.
- December 24 - 151 people die in the Tangiwai disaster, when the Tangiwai Railway Bridge over the Whangaehu River collapses as the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, passes over it; the bridge supports had been weakened by a lahar (a volcanic ash and debris filled flash flood) a few minutes before the train passed.
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Unknown date events
- The first Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC, or "piggyback") equipment enters service on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- John W. Barriger III steps down from the presidency of the Monon railroad.
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Deaths
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References
- John W. Barriger; Rail historian and railfan (http://www.rosshorwood.com/RailSiteLinksFiles/JohnBarriger.html). Retrieved February 22 2005.
- MichiganRailroads.com (2005), Railroad History Timeline, 1950-1959 (http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1950s/TimeLine1950sBackUp.htm). Retrieved June 13 2005
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
