Events January events January 1 - The Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in France is incorporated into the state-owned Chemins de fer de l'État. January 26 - The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania. January 29 - The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia. March events March 7 - The Winona Interurban Electric Railway (Indiana) is forced by its major creditor to begin operations on Sundays, a move resisted by its Sabbatarian founders, including H.J. Heinz and J. M. Studebaker. April events April 1 - Great Central Railway places turbine steamships on its Grimsby-Rotterdam service. April 4 - Passenger service begins on the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad (predecessor of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad) between Hammond, Indiana, and Pullman, Illinois. April 12 - Gary, Indiana, United States: a westbound Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with an eastbound train, killing twelve. May events May 17 - Firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike to protest the hiring of African-Americans. May 26 – Los Angeles Pacific Railroad begins passenger service over the Santa Monica Air Line. June events June - George Whale retires as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London & North Western Railway; he is succeeded by Charles Bowen-Cooke. June 19 - Shadyside, Indiana, United States: an eastbound Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with a westbound train. July events July 10 - The Great Northern Railway electrifies the original Cascade Tunnel, near the summit of Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains. This first system and General Electric-built boxcabs are the only three-phase AC railway electrification implementation ever to be used in North America. July 25 - Opening of Tauern Railway Line in Austria. August events August 30 - Great Western Railway begins using its Fishguard terminus in Wales for boat trains in connection with the Cunard steamships on Atlantic routes as a first port of call. August - Canadian Pacific opens the Spiral Tunnels to traffic on the line through Kicking Horse Pass. September events September - Robert S. Lovett succeeds E. H. Harriman as president of the Southern Pacific Company,