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The City of San Francisco passenger train is marooned for three days in heavy snow on Donner Pass in California.
An earthquake hits the Tehachapi pass, closing the Southern Pacific Railroad's entire route over the Tehachapi Loop until repairs can be made.
Donald Russell takes over as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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	There are a few pamphlets on transport and the problems of war, notably -"Problems of the famine: transport in Europe" written by A. Burall in 1919, (HE/43) and "Verkehrswirtschaft und Krieg" by K.W. Foerster, 1937 (HE/3).
	On international coordination of transport "Note sur la coordination du rail et de la route" was published in 1948 by the International Union of Railwaymen, (HE/D1) and "European transport: the way to unity" was written by M. Zwolf for the Fabian International Bureau in 1946 (HE/D9).
	These include-: "Britain's transport crisis: a socialist view" written by E. Davies, published by the Road and Rail Association in 1960s (HE/D21), "A future for Britain's transport" issued by the National Council on Inland Transport in 1964 (HE/D31) and "Transport in the year 2000:a discussion" issued by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1965 (HE/D33).

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