Events

January events

• January - The Canadian National Railway absorbs the Grand Trunk Railway and spins off the portion of the Grand Trunk within the United States to form the Grand Trunk Western Railroad; CN operates GTW as a subsidiary railroad.

July events

• July 15 - United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.

Unknown date events

• The Interstate Commerce Commission allows the Southern Pacific Railroad's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that the control is in the public's interest.
• George Hughes succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway
• The city of Glasgow, Scotland takes over operations of the Glasgow Subway.

Births

Unknown date births

• Robert R. Dowty , construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (d. 2004).

Deaths

April deaths

• April 10 - Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central 1887–1907 (b. 1851).

May deaths

• May 16 - George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (b. 1864).

December deaths

• December 5 - Sir William Mackenzie, part owner of Toronto Street Railway , builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (b. 1849).