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EVENTS

January events

January 1 – The London, Brighton And South Coast Railway 's '' Southern Belle '' is re-equipped with electric Multiple Unit cars to replace Steam power.

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February events

February 1 – The San Diego And Arizona Eastern Railway is incorporated and assumes all operations of the San Diego And Arizona Railway .

May events

May 15 – Deutsche Reichsbahn put the Fliegener Hamburger Multiple unit into service. It shortens the distance of 286 km between Hamburg and Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof to 138 minutes. The average speed was 124 Km/h .

June events

June 25 – Canadian Pacific Railway discontinues the use of the '' Imperial Limited '' name, although the trains continue to run designated now by train numbers only.

July events

July 15 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines .

August events

August 15 -The first broadcast of the passing “Pan American” on radio station WSM. This will become a daily feature, popularizing “train” rhythms in Country Music , a Hank Williams song and making celebrities out of the Louisville & Nashville crews.

October events

October 11 - London, Midland And Scottish Railway 4-6-0 ''Royal Scot'' number 6152 (of the LMS Royal Scot Class locomotives) departs the Century Of Progress Exhibition in Chicago , bound for Vancouver, British Columbia .

November events

November 9 - Canadian National Railway 's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba , opens.

Unknown date events

Matthew S. Sloan becomes president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Hill, Keith (February 2005 ), "Brighton's Belle Époque", ''BackTrack'' 19 (2), 70-79.

Katy Railroad Historical Society, '' Katy Frequently Asked Questions ''. Retrieved February 9 2005