2000 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.

Events

January events

• January 29 - The Termini Station, in Rome, opens.

May events

• May 23 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific Railroad the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad.

June events

• June 7 - The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America.

July events

• July 11 - VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeper cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
• July 14 - The United States Surface Transportation Board's temporary moratorium on railroad mergers is upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; the ruling contributes to the failure of the proposed BNSF/CN merger.
• July 21 - Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.

October events

• October 2 - VIA Rail operates a funeral train for Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau between Ottawa and Montreal; the train's journey, which was frequently slowed through towns for the numerous well-wishers, was documented by a CBC news helicopter.
• October 17 - The Hatfield rail crash, south of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, occurs when a train traveling at 115 mph derails due to a rail that breaks under it.
• October 29 - Amtrak upgrades service on the California Zephyr to daily.

November events

• November 11 - An faulty heater aboard a funicular train in Kaprun, Austria, starts a fire in the train's brake fluid while the train is in a tunnel; only four of the train's 155 passengers survived the fire in the Kaprun disaster.

Unknown date events

• Robert Krebs resigns as Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
• The fourth and final phase of Cairo Metro's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
• Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway and Canadian National Railway file for a merger, but the merger is denied by regulatory agencies.

Deaths

References

• Some of the events listed here were translated from 2000 dans les chemins de fer, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 30, 2005.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division (May 23, 2000), General Motors' Electro Motive ships first five locomotives for huge Union Pacific order. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
• Green, Timothy C. (September 1, 2004), Train Scan August 2000. Retrieved July 7, 2005.