The Carmelit, Haifa's underground funicular railway, opens. October 12 - First R28 (New York City Subway car) enters service, from the last batch of passenger cars that the American Car and Foundry Company is to build. October 28 - The Canadian National Railway line between St. Felicien and Chibougamau, Quebec, opens. November events November 2 - The Pacific Electric Watts Line, then under operation by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, is discontinued. The service is replaced with buses. December events December 1 - The Virginian Railway is merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad. December 29 - First section of Lisbon Metro (Metropolitano de Lisboa) opens in Lisbon, Portugal, first metro (subway) system in the country. Unknown date events General Electric announces that it will begin manufacturing diesel locomotives on its own. Israel Railways officially withdraws all steam locomotives; the last, Baldwin-built Palestine Railways H class 4-6-0 no. 901, surviving in traffic into the following year. Accidents Births May births May 1 - Ning Bin, Chinese signalling control systems engineer (died 2019). Deaths August deaths August 26 - William Valentine Wood, President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1941-8 (born 1883). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 30 and October 28, 2005.