Railroad Milestones Since 1945 - A Tool for Modelers.
C30-7, F40PH, GP15-1 introduced.
C&EI and T&P fully absorbed into Missouri Pacific.
Increasing branchline abandonments spell the end for growing numbers of 40' box cars in grain service.
Conrail created (PC+EL+LV+RDG+CNJ+L&HR+P-RSL)
Last RPO's are run under Amtrak.
Spin-off short lines begin to appear in quantity.
Centerbeam flats begin to appear in large numbers.
Kankakee Beaverville & Southern appears.
Locomotive pilot foot boards banned.
Ice reefer service ends on B&O (last in the country.)
VIA Rail appears as an independent Crown Corporation.
Southern ends Crescent and joins Amtrak.
ACI system abandoned - label removal begins.
Cars with White U-1 dots banned.
Dash 8 replaces Dash 7 at GE.
Milwaukee Road abandoned west of Miles City, Montana.
CSX created but Chessie and Family Lines still separate.
Maryland Midland appears.
Frisco merges into Bulington Northern.
B36-7, GP50, SD50 introduced.
Short line boxcar boom peaks.
Guilford acquires Maine Central.
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line merges into Grand Trunk Western.
U-1 inspections complete.
Tests successful, SP launches double stack service in volume.
U-1 dots (black square with yellow dot) appear on all 70 ton cars with 33" whls.
PFE split into UPFE and SPFE.
BN completes Orin Line, setting off Powder River Basin coal boom.
F units still in service on 17 Class 1's.
Northern Alberta Railways merges into Canadian National.
Removal of class lights begins.
Cars with running boards finally banned from interchange.
Western Pacific and Missouri Pacific merge into Union Pacific.
D&RGW gets rights into Kansas City and SP gets rights into St. Louis.
Con-Stencil changed to 3-box format.
Guilford acquires Boston & Maine.
ICG paints locos orange and gray.
Missouri Pacific adopts Screaming Eagle logo.
Massachussets Central begins operations.
Indiana & Ohio appears (spun off Conrail.)
Plating over non-essential windows on cabooses and some locos begins.
4750 cu.ft. grain cars appear in quantity.
Southern adopts thin profile lettering.
Wisconsin & Southern appears (spinning off of Milwaukee Road.)
MKT sets up OK&T to operate some former RI routes.
Cotton Belt acquires Rock's Golden State Route.
First new street car system in decades opens in San Diego.
Durham & Southern merges into Seaboard Coast Line.
NYS&W is saved from abandonment, launches amazing growth spurt.
Freight service ends on White Pass & Yukon.
Minneapolis Northfield & Southern merges into Soo Line.
Illinois Terminal merges into Norfolk & Western.
The new Norfolk Southern is created.
Family Lines image appears on locomotives. (SCL, L&N, CRR, Georgia, A&WP, WoA.)
HR-616 introduced with the "Draper Taper."