January 4 in rail transport

19th century

20th century

  • 1948 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad debut a new lightweight passenger car consist for the Golden State passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
  • 1961 – Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke delivers the first electric locomotives built in the German Democratic Republic to Deutsche Reichsbahn.
  • 1987 – Amtrak and Conrail trains collide in Maryland.
  • 2000 – The Åsta accident, a northbound BM92 multiple unit and a southbound passenger train headed by a Di 3 locomotive collides on Norway's Rørosbanen line near Åsta station, [...] 19 people.

21st century

  • 2005 – Bombardier receives a contract from SNCF for €350 million to build 100 new regional trainsets.

Deaths

  • 1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).

References

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