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EVENTS

February events

February - A second all-lightweight trainset enters service on the '' Super Chief ''.

March events

March 27 - Santa Fe Railroad inaugurates '' San Diegan '' Passenger Train service between Los Angeles and San Diego .¹

June events

June 16 - The Pike's Peak Cog Railway in Colorado operates Gasoline -powered railcar number 7, the first Rack railcar in the world, for the first time.

July events

July 3 - The London And North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 ''Mallard'' reaches a speed of 126 Mph (203 Km/h ), the highest certified speed for a Steam Locomotive .

July 31 - The Pennsylvania Railroad , in its public Timetable issued today, boasts that “19% of all passengers are carried on the Pennsylvania Railroad.”

October events

October - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E4 .

December events

December 13 - The Reading Railroad 's ''Crusader'' Passenger Train is introduced.

December 15 - The first Diesel Locomotive s in the southeast United States, EMD E4 s, appear on the '' Orange Blossom Special ''.

Unknown date events

Pennsylvania Railroad 's '' Broadway Limited '' is completely re-equipped based on an Industrial Design by Raymond Loewy .

Overhead wire on the Pennsylvania Railroad 's mainline from New York City reaches Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .

The first Passenger Car equipped with Fluorescent Lights was operated on the New York Central Railroad .

The Lake Shore Electric Railway in Ohio ceases operations.

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

John H. Kuehl , editor of ''Private Varnish'' magazine, Passenger Car historian and photographer (d. 2005 ).

DEATHS

February deaths

February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt , director of the New York Central system (b. 1856 ).

October deaths

October 16 - Henry Fowler , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909 – 1923 and the London, Midland And Scottish Railway 1925 – 1931 (b. 1870 ).

December deaths

December 1 - David Blyth Hanna , first president of Canadian National Railway (b. 1858 ).

REFERENCES

Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway (, 2005 .

(May 2005 ), Obituaries, ''Trains Magazine'', p. 21.