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EVENTS

March events

March 28 - The Niagara, St. Catherines And Toronto Railway , the last Interurban Railroad in Canada , operates its last revenue train

April events

April 3 - Construction begins on Japanese National Railways ’ Tokaido Shinkansen between Osaka and Tokyo .

June events

June 9 - The Chicago, Aurora And Elgin Railroad , commuter railway serving Chicago 's western Suburb s, ceases operations.

June 15 - The Disneyland Monorail System built by Alweg opens, making it the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere .

June 21 - Soo Line 2719 hauls the last of Soo Line Railroad 's Steam Locomotive -powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion between Minneapolis, Minnesota , and Ladysmith, Wisconsin .

July events

July 14 - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 0-6-0 number 5244, class B-6sb, becomes the last Steam Locomotive to operate on the PRR.

July 18 - The last Steam Locomotive runs on the Nickel Plate Road as a pair of 0-8-0 Switcher s are called out to cover a traffic surge.

August events

August 30 - Streetcar service in Montreal , Canada is discontinued.

October events

October 28 - The Canadian National Railway line between St. Felicien and Chibougamau , Quebec , opens.

December events

December 1 - The Virginian Railway is merged into the Norfolk And Western Railroad .

Unknown date events

Passenger service on the Monon Railroad is discontinued.

General Electric announces that it will begin manufacturing Diesel Locomotives on its own.

ACF Industries completes the last Passenger Car that it is to build.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( and October 28 2005 .