1913 in rail transport
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- The Nickel Plate Road completes its grade separation project in Cleveland, Ohio.
- The Supreme Court of the United States orders the Union Pacific Railroad to sell all of its stock in the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- ALCO ceases new steam locomotive production at the former Rogers Locomotive Works plant in Paterson, New Jersey; ALCO continues producing new locomotives at its other plants.
- First examples of Class 140 C steam locomotives delivered to Chemins de Fer de l'ÃÂtat in France; 340 will eventually be built.
- The worldâÂÂs first rail vehicle with diesel-electric transmission, and the first diesel of any type in regular revenue main line service, a railcar built by Atlas-Deva/Asea, enters service on the Södermanland Mellersta Railway in Sweden. It will remain in use until 1939.
- The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway, a copper ore-hauling short line in Montana, electrifies using a 2,400 Volts DC system engineered by General Electric, the first primarily freight railroad in North America to electrify.
- Hejaz Railway Station opened in Damascus.
- First on-train cinema set up, on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
- William Finley is succeeded by Fairfax Harrison as president of the Southern Railway.
- Mary Averell Harriman, wife of the late Edward H. Harriman, creates the E. H. Harriman Award to recognize outstanding achievements in railway safety.
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