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EVENTS

January events

January 2 - Chicago And North Western Railway begins "400" passenger train service between Chicago, Illinois , and Saint Paul, Minnesota ; it was so named because the 400 mile trip was scheduled to take 400 minutes.

January 28 - Mainline electrified train service commences on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Washington, D.C. , and New York, New York .

January 31 - Union Pacific Railroad 's M-10000 enters service as the '' City Of Salina '' between Salina, Kansas , and Kansas City . The 116 seat train carries an average 280 passengers per round trip.

February events

February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces the new company's first Winton -engined Diesel Locomotive s.

March events

March 24 - Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey , opens.

March 27 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division breaks ground in McCook, Illinois , for their new locomotive factory.

April events

April 1 - The '' Flying Yankee '' trainset enters service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads between Portland, Maine , Boston, Massachusetts , and Bangor, Maine .

April 21 - The Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad 's '' Twin Zephyrs '' enter revenue service between Chicago, Illinois , and the Twin Cities .

May events

May 29 - The Milwaukee Road inaugurates '' Hiawatha '' Passenger Train service between Chicago, Illinois , and St. Paul, Minnesota .

June events

June 5 - The New Haven Railroad introduces its double-ended '' Comet '' Passenger Train between Boston, Massachusetts , and Providence, Rhode Island .

June 6 - Union Pacific ’s M-10001 enters Chicago, Illinois to Rose City service as the “Streamlined City of Portland”. The 2,272-mile route was covered in 39.75 hours, 18 hours faster than the previous best time.

July events

July 1 - The New York Central Lines (subsidiary companies) are re-named the New York Central System.

July 29 - Two ACF built, Otto Kuhler styled "Rebels" are put in service on the Gulf, Mobile And Northern Railroad , ending steam powered passenger service on that road.

August events

August 18 - In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore And Annapolis Electric Railway , officials of the Lancaster Railway And Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey , frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two constituent organizations.

August 22 - Diesel Locomotive s begin to replace Steam Locomotive s on Baltimore And Ohio Railroad 's long-distance Passenger Train s.

August 28 - Congress passes the Public Utility Holding Company Act . Heralded as a consumer protection milestone, it also separates transit companies from the deep pockets of their parent electric utilities. This becomes one of the nails in the coffin of Streetcar and Interurban Railroad s in the United States .

August 30 - The Santa Fe Railroad takes delivery of its first mainline Diesel Locomotive s.

September events

September - The Labor Day Hurricane Of 1935 destroys much of the Florida East Coast Railway 's Key West extension; an evacuation train from the island was on the bridges linking the keys with the Florida mainland at the time the storm hit and 259 lives were lost.

Unknown date events

The Milwaukee Road enters Bankruptcy .

The Goodyear-Zeppelin Company completes construction on the '' Comet '' Streamlined passenger trainset for the New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad .

The Glasgow Subway is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system.

The National Model Railroad Association is founded in the United States .

BIRTHS

February births

February 21 - Jean Pelletier , Chairman of VIA Rail 2001-2004, is born.

DEATHS

September deaths

2005 .

December deaths

December - Mantis James Van Sweringen , American Financier who, with his brother Oris , controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (b. 1881 ).

REFERENCES

Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum ( 2005 .

National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (, 2005 .