2000 in rail transport
Events
January events January 29 - The Rome-Termini station, in Italy, 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 21 - Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.
October events 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.
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; none 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 Santa Fe Railway The fourth and final phase of Cairo Metro's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
Deaths
References Some of the events listed here were translated from 2000 dans les chemins de fer, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article. 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.
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