1903 in rail transport

Events

April events

• April 7 - Apalachicola Northern Railroad, later to become AN Railway, is chartered.

Unknown date events

• Southern Pacific Railroad gains 50% control of the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, California.
• The provisions of the US Railroad Safety Appliance Act, enacted in 1893, are extended to include all railroad cars whether or not the cars themselves are used in interchange service.
• E. H. Harriman becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.
• George Whale succeeds Francis William Webb as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.

Births

Deaths

July deaths

• July 27 - Frederick J. Kimball, American civil engineer who was instrumental in the formation of Norfolk and Western (b. 1844).

Unknown date deaths

• J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.