1922 in rail transport

Events

May events

• May 17 – The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.

  July events

• July 1 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board. Continues until September 1.

  August events

• August 31 – H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio.

  October events

• October – International Union of Railways established in Paris to promote co-operation and standardisation.
• October 22 – Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof opened in Germany.

  November events

• The first Willamette locomotive is built for Coos Bay Lumber Company of Marshfield, Oregon.
• July 26 – The Drammen Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo West Station and Brakerøya.

  December events

• December 9 – Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée resumes the Calais-Mediterranée Express, now known as Le Train Bleu because of its Wagons-Lits cars, between Calais Gare Maritime and Menton on the French Riviera.

  Unknown date events

• The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
• Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
• George Hughes succeeds H. P. M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.

  Births

March births

• March 22 – Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer

  July births

• July 20 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak.

  Unknown date births

• Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway.

  Deaths