Events January January 1 – Creation of the following European railway networks under government control: SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), bringing the principal railway companies of France together. NS (Nederlandsche Spoorwegen), merging the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HSM) and the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS) in the Netherlands. January 22 – The Pacific Electric Whittier Line is truncated to Walker. February February 22 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the El Capitan passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles. February 26 – A second all-lightweight trainset enters service on the Super Chief. March March 6 – The Pacific Electric Walker Line is discontinued. March 18 – Bundesbahn Österreich (BBÖ, Federal Railway of Austria) integrated into Deutsche Reichsbahn. March 27 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the San Diegan passenger train between Los Angeles and San Diego. May May 8 — President Manuel L. Quezon inaugurates regular services on the Main Line South of the Manila Railroad in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur. Trial runs already began five months prior. May 15 The Lake Shore Electric Railway in Ohio ceases operations. Inauguration of a major Nederlandse Spoorwegen electrification scheme in the central Netherlands, centred on Utrecht. June June 1 – Pacific Electric's Owensmouth Line and San Fernando Line are truncated to Sherman Way. June 15 – New York Central Railroad introduces an all-streamlined consist on the 20th Century Limited and also introduces the New England States passenger train between Chicago and Boston. June 16 – The Pike's Peak Cog Railway in Colorado operates gasoline-powered railcar number 7, the first rack railcar in the world, for the first time. June 19 – Custer Creek train wreck kills at least 47 near Saugus, Montana. A bridge, weakened by a flash flood, collapses under the Milwaukee Road's Olympian plunging the locomotive and seven lead cars into the rain-swollen creek. It remains the worse rail disaster in Montana history. June 30 – London Underground 1938 Stock enters public service, on Northern line. July July 3 – The London and North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Mallard reaches a speed of 126 mph (203 km/h), the highest certified speed for a steam locomotive. July 31 – The Pennsylvania Railroad, in its public timetable issued today, boasts that “19% of all passengers are carried on the Pennsylvania Railroad.” October October – Electro-Motive Corporation introduces the EMC E4. November November 1 – Passenger