1935 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1935.
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Events
February events
- February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces the new company's first Winton-engined diesel locomotives.
March events
- March 24 - Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey opens.
April events
- April 1 - The Flying Yankee trainset enters service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads between Portland, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts, and Bangor, Maine.
- April - The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Twin Zephyrs enter revenue service between Chicago, Illinois, and the Twin Cities.
May events
- May 29 - The Milwaukee Road inaugurates Hiawatha passenger train service between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Paul, Minnesota.
June events
- June 5
- Union Pacific Railroad's refurbished M-10001 is dedicated as the City of Portland passenger train.
- The New Haven Railroad introduces its double-ended Comet passenger train between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
August events
- August 18 - In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, officials of the Lancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey, frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two constituent organizations.
- August 22 - Diesel locomotives begin to replace steam locomotives on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's long-distance passenger trains.
September events
- September - The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 destroys much of the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West extension; an evacuation train from the island was on the bridges linking the keys with the Florida mainland at the time the storm hit and 259 lives were lost.
Unknown date events
- The Milwaukee Road enters bankruptcy.
- The Goodyear-Zeppelin Company completes construction on the Comet streamlined passenger trainset for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
- General Motors builds a new manufacturing plant in LaGrange, Illinois, to house the Electro-Motive Division.
- The Glasgow Subway is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system.
- The National Model Railroad Association is founded in the United States.
Births
Deaths
December deaths
- December - Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (b. 1881).
Unknown date deaths
- William W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (b. 1866).
References
- Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum (2000), General Atterbury. Retrieved February 21 2005.
- National Railway Historical Society (2003), About the NRHS. Retrieved August 16 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, (2005), This Month in Railroad History - August. Retrieved August 22 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: May. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
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- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
