the Cahuenga Pass between Los Angeles and Van Nuys, California. Unknown date events The "Chinese Changchun Railway", that portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway on the Liaodong Peninsula, is returned by the Soviet Union to Chinese control. National Railway Company of Belgium opens new Brussels-North railway station. Last standard gauge compound locomotives built: Norfolk and Western Railway 2-8-8-2 Class Y6b Mallet #2200 from its Roanoke Shops, the last conventional steam freight locomotive for road service constructed in the United States; and SNCF Class 241P mixed-traffic 4-cylinder Chapelon 4-8-2 #241P-35 at Le Creusot in France. Donald J. Russell takes over as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Accidents Births September 19 – George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998–2002, executive director of New Jersey Transit 2002–2007 (d. 2007). Deaths November 19 – Yury Lomonosov, Russian-born locomotive engineer (b. 1876). References