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EVENTS

January events

January 8 - The Harmelen Train Disaster , the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands , occurs when one Passenger Train driver misses a warning signal and Passes A Red Signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.

July events

July 17 - Canadian National Railway debuts a new paint scheme on its transcontinental Passenger Train , the '' Super Continental ''.

September events

September 7 - The Buckfastleigh, Totnes And South Devon Railway , in England , now a part of the British Railways , closes.

October events

October 11 - Colorado And Southern Railroad 2-8-0 number 641 pulls the last Steam Locomotive -operated regular daily service revenue train on a Standard Gauge railroad in the United States when it pulls a train from Leadville to Climax, Colorado .

Unknown date events

New York Central purchases the first electric Multiple Unit Passenger Car s from Pullman-Standard for use on the Metro-North railroad.

Union Pacific 3985 , the largest operable Steam Locomotive in the world, is removed from revenue service on the Union Pacific Railroad .

ALCO closes the ALCO Thermal Products Division (formerly Brooks Locomotive Works ) plant in Dunkirk, New York .

Harry A. DeButts is succeeded by D. William Brosnan as president of the Southern Railway .

The Northern Refrigerator Car Line is combined with Merchants Despatch .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

Ralph Budd , president of the Great Northern Railway 1919 – 1932 and Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad 1932 – 1949 (b. 1879 ).

REFERENCES

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

President and Fellows of Harvard College ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

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