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This article lists events related to
rail transport that occurred in 1948.
In 1948, 14 railroads in
North America owned more than 1,000
steam locomotives each. See also:
Historical sizes of railroads
Events
January
February
February–April –
Queensland Railway strike , a
labor union
strike over wages issues by railway workshop and
locomotive depot workers in
Queensland ,
Australia .
[2]
February 4 – The last
steam locomotive built for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , 4-8-4 no. 3752, is test fired at the factory.
February 15 – The
Monon Railroad introduces the
Thoroughbred
streamliner between
Chicago ,
Illinois and
Louisville, Kentucky , replacing the Day Express .
[3]
February 20 – Opening of Transandino del Norte branch of
Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano from
Salta ,
Argentina through to
Socompa and
Antofagasta ,
Chile .
[4]
February 29 –
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway upgrades its
El Capitan
passenger train service frequency to daily.
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
An ITC Streamliner
December
Unknown date
Accidents
Railway accidents in 1948 (1948 )
Location and date
Births
June births
December births
Deaths
March deaths
References
^ Bonavia, Michael R. (1979). The Birth of British Rail . London: George Allen & Unwin.
ISBN
0-04-385071-5 .
^ Olive, Doug (1948).
The Queensland Railway Strike, February–April 1948 .
^ Sanders, Craig (2003).
Limiteds, Locals, and Expresses in Indiana, 1838–1971 . Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press . p. 23.
ISBN
978-0-253-34216-4 .
^
"History" . Tren al as Nubes . Retrieved 2009-06-02 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Santa Fe Railroad (April 2, 1948).
"New Schedules (advertisement)" . The Atchison Daily Globe . Atchison, Kansas. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Huddleston, Eugene L. (January–February 2002).
"The outstanding features and many lives of C&O 614" . Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine .
^
"New Terminal Train To Be Shown Here" .
Edwardsville Intelligencer . October 19, 1948. p. 1. Retrieved August 31, 2014 – via
Newspapers.com .
^ Saxena, R. P. (2008).
"Indian Railway History Time Line" . Archived from
the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-12-22 .