Southern Railway traffic in Argentina. July 17 – The Texas Mexican Railway converts to standard gauge. September events September 1 – Damascus–Daraa railway line completed. September 22 – Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway acquires the Pontiac and Pacific Junction Railway. October events October 9 – The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway, predecessor of the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, is chartered in Texas. October 13 – Professor Ernest Rutherford of McGill University demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal. October 15 – The Ferrovia della Valtellina in Italy begins operating the world's first three-phase AC railway electrification system on a public standard gauge line, designed by MÁV chief engineer Kálmán Kandó with equipment by the Ganz Works. November November 2 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad jointly inaugurate the Golden State Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. November 26 – Skreiabanen in Toten, Norway, is opened. Unknown date events The Alaska Central Railroad (an early predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) begins construction northward from Seward, Alaska. The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Plant System Railroads and gains control of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Serious buffer stop accident at Frankfurt-am-Main inspires development of Rawie range of energy-absorbing buffer stops. Narrow gauge Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco is completed to Coscomatepec, Veracruz. Percy French writes the song Are Ye Right There Michael? ridiculing the West Clare Railway in Ireland. Births Deaths May deaths May 20 – H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, dies (b. 1810). November deaths November 12 - William Henry Barlow, English railway civil engineer (born 1812). References