Events January events January 15 - The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad's southbound Federal Express passenger train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster's office at Union Station (Washington, D.C.), but nobody is killed in the accident. March events March - Union Pacific Railroad removes the streamliner trainset M-10003 from revenue service. March 5 - After Joseph Stalin's death this day, construction work ceases on the ill-fated Salekhard-Igarka Railway in Siberian Arctic. March 27 - Three train accident on the New York Central near Conneaut, Ohio, kills 21 and injures 49. March 31 - The Staten Island Railway closes its North Shore and South Beach Branches. April events April - Fairbanks-Morse and Canadian Locomotive Company introduce the H-24-66 model Train Master diesel locomotive, at the time the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive available. April 12 - Last run of the Orange Blossom Special passenger train in United States. May events May 30 - The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway runs its last passenger trains. June events June 5 - The last steam locomotive runs on the Lackawanna Railroad. June 9 - Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 “Allegheny” number 1642 suffers a boiler explosion. All three head-end crew members are killed when the cab is blown in one piece in the air and off the mainline into the adjacent river. The boiler is blown off the running gear and flips end for end, coming to rest ahead of the train. The blast is blamed on a faulty feedwater injector and/or cold water pump. June 15 - The New York City Transit Authority is created. June 16 - The last steam powered through passenger train runs on the Canada Southern. June 16 - New York Central Railroad ends steam locomotive operation on the former Michigan Central Railroad with a train pulled by 4-6-4 number 5434. June 17 – The Southern Railway (US) runs its last steam locomotive and the remaining steam locomotives on the line go into standby service. June 22 - At the Annual Association of American Railroads railroad show the first Fairbanks-Morse Train Master diesel locomotives and Airslide covered hoppers are displayed, but for the first time no new steam locomotives are shown. June 26 - The Rutland Railroad becomes freight-only. July events July 2 - Baltimore’s Museum of Transportation opens. July 13 - Last day of steam locomotive operations on the Cotton Belt and