- 1935 in rail transport
Events
January events
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January 2 -Chicago and North Western Railway begins "400" passenger train service betweenChicago, Illinois , andSaint Paul, Minnesota ; it was so named because the 400 mile trip was scheduled to take 400 minutes.
*January 28 - Mainline electrified train service commences on thePennsylvania Railroad betweenWashington, D.C. , andNew York, New York .
*January 31 -Union Pacific Railroad 'sM-10000 enters service as the "City of Salina " betweenSalina, Kansas , and Kansas City. The 116 seat train carries an average 280 passengers per round trip.February events
* February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces the new company's first Winton-engined
diesel locomotive s.March events
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March 24 - Pennsylvania Station inNewark, New Jersey , opens.
*March 27 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division breaks ground inMcCook, Illinois , for their new locomotive factory.
*March 31 - TheGlasgow Subway inScotland is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system. [cite book|author=Wright, John|coauthors=Maclean, Ian|title=Circles Under the Clyde – a history of the Glasgow Underground|date=1997|publisher=Capital Transport|location=Harrow Weald|isbn=1-85414-190-2]April events
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April 1 - The "Flying Yankee " trainset enters service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads betweenPortland, Maine ,Boston, Massachusetts , andBangor, Maine .
*April 21 - TheChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 's "Twin Zephyrs " enter revenue service betweenChicago, Illinois , and the Twin Cities.May events
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May 29 - TheMilwaukee Road inaugurates "Hiawatha"passenger train service betweenChicago, Illinois , andSt. Paul, Minnesota .June events
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June 5 - TheNew Haven Railroad introduces its double-ended "Comet"passenger train betweenBoston, Massachusetts , andProvidence, Rhode Island .
*June 6 -Union Pacific ’sM-10001 entersChicago, Illinois to Rose City service as the “Streamlined City of Portland”. The 2,272-mile route was covered in 39.75 hours, 18 hours faster than the previous best time.July events
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July 1 - TheNew York Central Lines (subsidiary companies) are re-named the New York Central System.
*July 24 - Firstchildren's railway is opened inTbilisi , USSR.
*July 29 - Two ACF built,Otto Kuhler styled "Rebels" are put in service on theGulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad , ending steam powered passenger service on that road.August events
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August 18 - In a meeting aboard a chartered train on theWashington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway , officials of theLancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society ofPennsylvania and theInterstate Trolley Club ofTrenton, New Jersey , frame the basis of theNational Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two constituent organizations. [cite web|author=National Railway Historical Society|date=2003 |url=http://www.nrhs.com/about.htm|title=About the NRHS|accessdate=2005-08-16]
*August 22 -Diesel locomotive s begin to replacesteam locomotive s onBaltimore and Ohio Railroad 's long-distancepassenger train s.
*August 28 - TheUnited States Congress passes thePublic Utility Holding Company Act . Heralded as a consumer protection milestone, it also separates transit companies from the deep pockets of their parent electric utilities. This becomes one of the nails in the coffin ofstreetcar andinterurban railroad s in theUnited States .
*August 30 - TheSanta Fe Railroad takes delivery of its first mainlinediesel locomotive s.eptember events
* September - The
Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 destroys much of theFlorida East Coast Railway 'sKey West extension; an evacuation train from the island was on the bridges linking the keys with theFlorida mainland at the time the storm hit and 259 lives were lost.
*September 29 - The last train operates on theLynton and Barnstaple Railway inEngland .Unknown date events
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Milwaukee Road entersbankruptcy .
* TheGoodyear-Zeppelin Company completes construction on the "Comet" streamlined passenger trainset for theNew York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad .
* TheNational Model Railroad Association is founded in theUnited States .Births
February births
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February 21 -Jean Pelletier , Chairman ofVIA Rail 2001 -2004 .Deaths
September deaths
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September 20 -William W. Atterbury , president of thePennsylvania Railroad 1925 -1935 (b.1866 ).The Political Graveyard (March 10 2005 ), " [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/railroad.html Politicians in Railroading in Indiana] ". RetrievedDecember 30 2005 .] [cite web|author=Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum|date=2000 |url=http://www.atterburybakalarairmuseum.org/general_atterbury.htm|title=General Atterbury|accessdate=2005-02-21]December deaths
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Mantis James Van Sweringen , Americanfinancier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other easternUnited States railroads (b.1881 ).References
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, (
2005 ), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histaug.htm This Month in Railroad History - August] ". RetrievedAugust 22 2005 .
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005 ), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmay.htm This Month in Railroad History: May] ". RetrievedMay 27 ,2005 .
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