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EVENTS

January events

January 11 - The Boston And Maine Railroad runs its first “Snow Train” for skiers and other winter vacationers.

May events

May 24 - The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad inaugurates the first Air Conditioned Passenger Train , the '' Columbian '', between Jersey City, New Jersey , and Washington, DC .

June events

June 13 - Switzerland 's Brienz Rothorn Bahn reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I .

September events

September 12 - Just outside of Bucharest , a bomb planted by a Hungarian Fascist destroys a section of the Biotobargy Viaduct, plunging the Orient Express into the ravine below. Twenty people are killed. Entertainer Josephine Baker , one of the surviving passengers, gives an impromptu concert to calm other survivors.

November events

November 12 - The Smithsonian Institution commemorates the 100th birthday of the '' John Bull '' by operating its mechanism with compressed air.

Unknown date events

Ernest Lemon succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland And Scottish Railway .

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

Nelson W. Bowers , president of the National Railway Historical Society ( 1983 - 1987 ) (d. 2004 ).

DEATHS

January deaths

January 13 - Kálmán Kandó , Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902, dies (b. 1869 ).