Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 26

The American Freedom Train at a stop in Georgia

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]

References

"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.

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