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EVENTS

January events

January - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD40-2 .

March events

March 30 - The Milwaukee Road discontinues its '' Limburger Special '' passenger service to New Glarus, Wisconsin .¹

April events

April 30 - British Rail suspends operation of the '' Brighton Belle '' Passenger Train between London and Brighton , England .²

August events

August 10 - The Illinois Central Railroad and the Gulf, Mobile And Ohio Railroad merge to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.

September events

September 11 - Revenue service begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco Bay Area .

September 27 - Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.

October events

October 30 - The driver of a fast train does not notice a stop Signal due to heavy fog and collides with another train in Schweinsburg-Culten , East Germany . 22 die and 70 are injured.

Unknown date events

The Chesapeake And Ohio Railway , Baltimore And Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railway become parts of the Chessie System .

The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis And Omaha Railway is officially merged into the Chicago And North Western Railway railroad.

Donald Russell steps down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad . The position remains vacant until 1976 .

General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces computer control systems in its line of Diesel Locomotive s with the EMD SD40-2 .

Fred Burbidge succeeds Ian David Sinclair as president of Canadian Pacific Railway .

The Family Lines System is formed through the merger of several eastern and southeastern United States railroads.

The Pacific Great Eastern Railway changes its name to British Columbia Railway .

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