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EVENTS

January events

January - Fairbanks-Morse and Canadian Locomotive Company introduce the H-16-66 model Train Master Diesel Locomotive .

January 11 - The San Diego And Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues Passenger Train service.

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February events

February 6 - '' The Broker '', a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey killing 85 people and injuring over 500 more.

February 25 - The Chicago Transit Authority 's Milwaukee-Dearborn-Congress Subway, Chicago's second subway, is placed in operation. Milwaukee 'L' trains are routed into the Subway between Division/Milwaukee and the Central Business District, using St. Louis-built 6000-Series rapid transit cars.

May events

May 3 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces its first six-axle freight Diesel Locomotive , an SD7 . It tours as demonstrator number 990 before being sold to the Southern Pacific Railroad , which numbers it 1518. It is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum .

August events

August 23 - The Cangkring (near Cirebon , Indonesia ) Train Station is destroyed by Fire .

August 26 - Railroad operations across Canada are standardized with the introduction of the Uniform Code Of Operating Rules .

September events

September 12 - Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation brings its last railroad Locomotive out of the Lima, Ohio , factory, a 2500 Hp transfer diesel, Pennsylvania Railroad number 5683.

December events

December 17 - The Rock Island Railroad coverts all of its Chicago -area Commuter Train s to Diesel Locomotive power. Seventeen new units replace the 23 Pacific type Steam Locomotive s previously used.

December 31 - Common-carrier rail service on Cyprus ends.

Unknown date events

Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico De Mexico is sold to the Mexican government.

Armand Mercier steps down from the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad .

The New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad 's Streamlined '' Comet '' passenger trainset (built in 1935 ) is retired from revenue service and scrapped.

Earnest E. Norris is succeeded by Harry A. DeButts as president of the Southern Railway .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March deaths

March 2 - Edgar Alcock , general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (b. 1877 ).

July deaths

July 10 - Charles E. Johnston , president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928 - 1938 (b. 1881 ).

REFERENCES

'' Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers ''. Retrieved February 9 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Kansas City Southern Historical Society, '' The Kansas City Southern Lines ''. Retrieved August 15 2005 .

Krishnamurti, Indra ( 2005 .

'' Norfolk Southern Railway ''. Retrieved February 22 2005 .