Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 26
- December 26
- 1854 – Charles Frederick Crocker, son of Charles Crocker of California's Big Four railroaders, president of San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad, is born (d. 1897).[1]
- 1917 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to nationalize American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.[2]
- 1976 – The second American Freedom Train (pictured) tour ends in Miami, Florida.
- 1989 – Buck Crump, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, 1955-1964 and 1966, dies (b. 1904).[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "C. F. Crocker Dead. Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railway Expires in San Mateo, California". New York Times. July 18, 1897. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
- ^ Presidential Proclamation 1419, December 26, 1917, under authority of the Army Appropriation Act, 39 Stat. 45, August 29, 1916.
- ^ "Norris Roy Crump". Historica Canada: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Anthony Wilson-Smith.