Japanese National Railways opens two lines out of Tabata: an extension of the Tsuchiura Line from Tsuchiura, and the Sumidagawa Line to Sumidagawa. December 30 – , the first steel train ferry, makes its first voyage. Unknown date events The Green Bay & Western Railroad is formed from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Green Bay, Winona and Saint Paul Railroad. The Loup Creek & Deepwater Railway (predecessor of the Deepwater Railway) is formed. Atlas Car & Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio, begins building steam locomotives. Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester, England, deliver the first five New South Wales T524 class 'Australian Consolidation' 2-8-0 type heavy goods locomotives to the New South Wales Government Railways, forerunners of the system's numerically largest class, finally totalling 280 representatives. Narrow gauge Ferrocarril de Tacubaya begins passenger service to Mexico City's Tacubaya amusement park. The first narrow gauge (750 mm) railway in Estonia connecting Valga with Pärnu is opened. Deaths January deaths January 23 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, dies (b. 1814). June deaths June 4 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (b. 1827). October deaths October 21 – James Henry Greathead, English inventor of the tunnelling shield used for the London Underground (b. 1844). References