will exceed 650 in total and see overseas service during World War I. October October – Southern Railway 4501 is built by Baldwin Locomotive Works (serial number 37085). October 1 Hudson and Manhattan Railroad trains make their first station stops at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manhattan Transfer station in New York City. Nigel Gresley (later Sir Nigel) becomes Locomotive Engineer, Great Northern Railway. Meitetsu Seto Line, Owari Seto to Horikawa of Nagoya route starts official regular operational service in Aichi Prefecture, Japan; it extends to Sakaemachi in 1978. October 4 – Regular operations over the entire Usambara Railway between Tanga and Moshi in German East Africa begins. October 5 – Kowloon Canton Railway opens throughout. November November 20 – Western Maryland Railway breaks ground for the station in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. November 30 – The Rjukan Line in Norway takes electric traction into use. December December 12 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates its first extra-fare named passenger train, the Santa Fe De Luxe between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. December 24 – The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad opens the Lackawanna Cut-Off, a 28-mile low-grade line from Lake Hopatcong to the Delaware River. Built primarily to transport anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to New York, the line also serves dozens of resort hotels in the Pocono Mountains. Trains on this line routinely approach speeds of 100 miles an hour. It remains in service until 1979, being subsequently owned by the State of New Jersey. The Paulinskill Viaduct on the route is the world's largest reinforced concrete structure when completed in 1910 under the supervision of Lincoln Bush, the road's chief engineer. December 29 – Sudan Government Railways open to El Obeid. December – The Eritrean Railway (950 mm gauge) opens throughout from Massawa to Asmara, using Mallet locomotives. Unknown date Chesapeake and Ohio Railway introduces the first 4-8-2 steam locomotives in the United States (built by the American Locomotive Company) onto its Mountain section. Rhaetian Railway Ge 2/2 electric locomotives introduced; they will still be in service on the line more than a century later. Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland opens. William Sproule succeeds Robert S. Lovett as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Laurel Race Track station opens in Laurel, Maryland. The Manila Railroad Company opens the Manila a Baguio Especial, later the Baguio Special. Oriented towards luxury travelers heading for