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Events

January events

• January 1
  • William Stanier succeeds Ernest Lemon as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
  • Ralph Budd leaves the Great Northern Railway and becomes president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

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March events

• March 24 - The first radio broadcast from a moving train in the United States.

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April events

• April 20 - The first completely air-conditioned sleeping car trains began operating on the Baltimore & Ohio.
• April - The Atlantic City Railroad (predecessor to the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) purchases the Stone Harbor Railroad.

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June events

• June 10 - The Great Western Railway's Cheltenham Flyer passenger train sets a new speed record as the 4-6-0 locomotive Treganna Castle pulls the train from Swindon to Paddington, a distance of 77¼ miles (124.3 km), at an average speed of 81.7 mph (131.5 km/h). [1]

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December events

• December 29 - “Twentieth Century” a play by Hecht and MacArthur about the New York Central train opens on Broadway.
• December 31 - The last steam-powered Southern Belle passenger train operates on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; the train's equipment will be replaced with electric multiple unit cars the next day.

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Unknown date events

• The Southern Pacific Railroad gains 87% control of the Cotton Belt Railroad (St. Louis Southwestern Railway).
• Angus Daniel McDonald succeeds Paul Shoup as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
• Hale Holden steps down as Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Southern Pacific Company. With Holden's departure, this position is eliminated. Holden then assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for the company.
• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reduces train frequencies on its subsidiary Grand Canyon Railway from twice daily to once daily.

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Births

Deaths

March deaths

• March 7 - William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (b. 1854).

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References

• (2000), American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Bianchi, Curt (May 1995), "By steam to the Grand Canyon", Trains Magazine, p. 38-45.
• Hill, Keith (February 2005), "Brighton's Belle Époque", BackTrack 19 (2), 70-79.
• Mike's Railway History - The Great Western Railway. Retrieved June 8, 2005.
• President and Fellows of Harvard College (2004), 20th century great American business leaders - Ralph Budd. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Yenne, Bill (1985). The history of the Southern Pacific, Bonanza, New York, NY.