Events January events January 1 – 1912 international convention agreeing the Berne gauge European standard loading gauge comes into effect. January 4 – New Michigan Central Station in Detroit formally inaugurated. March events March 17 – A celebration is held in honor of the first train to arrive on the newly constructed Kansas City Southern Railway line in Hot Springs, Arkansas. March 21 – Henry Clay Hall is appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission filling the vacancy left by Charles A. Prouty's resignation. April events April 2 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia. April 7 – The last spike is driven (pictured) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Fort Fraser, British Columbia, 93 miles (150 km) west of Prince George, completing the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert. April 30 – Osaka Electronic Railway Line, Osaka Uehonmachi to Nara route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of Kintetsu Nara Line). May events May 17 – Canadian Northern Railway acquires Canadian Northern Ontario Railway. June events June 18 – A railway bridge collapse at Carrbridge in Scotland following a torrential thunderstorm kills 5 people. June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife travel from Ilidža over the 760 mm narrow gauge railway to the Marijin dvor station in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) on an official visit from which they will not return. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this day at Sarajevo, the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople. June 29 – The maiden trip on the Portland–Lewiston Interurban is made when the car Arbutus carries an inspection trip from Lewiston to Portland, Maine. July events July 7 – Regular scheduled service begins on the Portland–Lewiston Interurban in Maine. July 11 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens. July 15 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway. July 29 – Railway viaduct over Sava between Zemun and Belgrade is blown up. August events August 4 – British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure. August 19 – Passenger trains of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway's Central Station in Toronto. October events October – The Atlantic Coast Line