1940 in the history of rail transport

• During the Soviet-Finnish war, for 47 days, in extremely difficult winter weather conditions, the 132-km railway Petrozavodsk - Suojärvi was built .
• June 14 - The People’s Commissariat of Railways signed an order to organize the Brest-Litovsk Railway College.
• On August 4, in the city of Svobodny ( Amur Region , RSFSR ), the Small Amur Children's Railway was opened.
• On November 8, the Small Southern Railway was opened in Kharkov .
• On November 9, the Small North Caucasian Railway named after Yu. A. Gagarin was opened in Rostov-on-Don .
• A new type of axle box was created in the USSR by engineer K. A. Pronenko. ^[one]

• The first Soviet fuel-free steam locomotive launched on the basis of the tank engine 9P
• In Finland, Tampella and Lokomo plants began production of Tr1 series freight steam locomotives .
• In the United States , Electro-Motive Diesel plants have mastered the production of EMD 40 series motor vehicles .
• The Ganz plant (Budapest) has launched the production of Rosario three-car diesel trains for the Argentine railways.

Born

• February 6, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zaitsev - Minister of Railways of the Russian Federation in 1996 - 1997 . Railway engineer, electrician, doctor of economic sciences, party and statesman.

Died

• Florenty Pimenovich Kazantsev , inventor of railway automatic brakes.

• May 7 Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov - Russian politician, engineer. In 1917 - Minister of Railways of the Provisional Government.

1. ↑ Rail Transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1994 .-- 559 p. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .