title: 1922 in rail transport
text: # 1922 in rail transport
  
  This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1922.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### May events
  
  * May 17 – The Arkansas Short Line Railroad, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is incorporated.
  
  ### July events
  
  * July 1 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board. Continues until September 1.
  
  ### August events
  
  * August 31 – H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division) in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
  ### October events
  
  * October – International Union of Railways (UIC) established in Paris to promote co-operation and standardisation.
  * October 22 – Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (first stage) opened in Germany.
  
  ### November events
  
  * The first Willamette locomotive is built for Coos Bay Lumber Company of Marshfield, Oregon.
  * July 26 – The Drammen Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo West Station and Brakerøya.
  
  ### December events
  
  * December 9 – Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée resumes the Calais-Mediterranée Express, now known as Le Train Bleu because of its Wagons-Lits cars, between Calais Gare Maritime and Menton on the French Riviera.
  
  ### Unknown date events
  
  * The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad).
  * Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway.
  * George Hughes succeeds H. P. M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.
  
  ## Births
  
  ### February births
  
  * February 27 – Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway (died 1993)
  
  ### March births
  
  * March 22 – Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (died 2003)
  
  ### July births
  
  * July 20 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, first United States Secretary of Transportation 1966–1969, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1969-1972, president of Amtrak (died 2020)
  