1913 in rail transport

Events

May 7 - Tracklaying begins on the Graysonia, Nashville and Ashdown Railroad between Murfreesboro and Shawmut, Arkansas.

July 2 - General Electric produces a gas-electric locomotive which is sold to the Electric Line of Minnesota as its #100 Dan Patch.
July 15 - Opening of the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway's Lötschberg railway line in Switzerland, including the Lötschberg Tunnel.

September 1 - Howard Elliott succeeds Charles Sanger Mellen as president of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
September 2 - Traveling at in heavy fog north of New Haven, Connecticut, the White Mountain Express crashes through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express and overturns a third coach, killing 21 and injuring 50.

December 1 - First section of Buenos Aires Metro opened, the earliest metro system in the Southern Hemisphere or the Hispanophone world, and the southernmost.
December 18 - Korekimi Nakamura steps down as president of South Manchuria Railway.
December 19 - Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Korekimi Nakamura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
December 26 - A major fire at its predecessor forces the new Michigan Central Station in Detroit to open early.

The Nickel Plate Road completes its grade separation project in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Supreme Court of the United States orders the Union Pacific Railroad to sell all of its stock in the Southern Pacific Railroad.
ALCO ceases new steam locomotive production at the former Rogers Locomotive Works plant in Paterson, New Jersey; ALCO continues producing new locomotives at its other plants.
First examples of Class 140 C steam locomotives delivered to Chemins de Fer de l'État in France; 340 will eventually be built.
The world’s first rail vehicle with diesel-electric transmission, and the first diesel of any type in regular revenue main line service, a railcar built by Atlas-Deva/Asea, enters service on the Södermanland Mellersta Railway in Sweden. It will remain in use until 1939.
The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway, a copper ore-hauling short line in Montana, electrifies using a 2,400 Volts DC system engineered by General Electric, the first primarily freight railroad in North America to electrify.
Hejaz Railway Station opened in Damascus.
First on-train cinema set up, on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
William Finley is succeeded by Fairfax Harrison as president of the Southern Railway.
Mary Averell Harriman, wife of the late Edward H. Harriman, creates the E. H. Harriman Award to recognize outstanding achievements in railway safety.