Events January January – Fairbanks-Morse and Canadian Locomotive Company introduce the H-16-66 diesel locomotive. January 10 – Two Southern Pacific trainmen are killed at Wendel, California, when their engine hits a flat car, killing them instantly; the engine then travels in reverse for 8 miles before derailing with the dead men inside. January 11 – The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues passenger train service. January 20 – Canadian Pacific Railway's eastbound The Dominion passenger train hits a truck at a level crossing in Ottawa; most of the train remains on the rails, but the engineer is fatally burned in the derailment. January 31 – The last daily narrow gauge passenger train in the United States, the San Juan Express, is retired by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. February February 6 – The Woodbridge train wreck, The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey killing 85 people and injuring over 500 more. February 25 – The Milwaukee-Dearborn subway (3.85 miles/6.0 km), Chicago's second subway route, is placed in operation by the CTA. With stations at Division, Chicago, Grand, Lake Transfer, Washington, Monroe, Jackson, and LaSalle. March March 16 – The Doncaster rail crash in England kills 14. April April 14 – Southern Railway (India) created as the first zone of Indian Railways by merger of South Indian Railway, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway and Mysore State Railway. April 24 – Sakuragichō train fire in Japan kills 106. April 30 – Huntly rail bridge bombing in New Zealand: a bridge is dynamited to disrupt coal supplies during an industrial dispute. May May 3 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces its first six-axle freight diesel locomotive, an SD7. It tours as demonstrator number 990 before being sold to the Southern Pacific Railroad, which numbers it 1518. It is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum. May 10 – SNCF introduces an experimental 50 Hz electrification scheme, initially at 20 kV, on the railway between Aix-les-Bains and La Roche-sur-Foron in south-eastern France. May 14 – Talyllyn Railway (Wales) reopened by Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, generally reckoned to be the first such voluntary body to operate a railway. June June 3 – The Great Northern Railway revamps its Chicago–Pacific Northwest service: the Empire Builder receives new equipment, while its old equipment equips a new passenger train, the Western Star. June 7 – A commuter train collides with