7 – Jesús García Corona is blown up driving a burning dynamite train away from a populated area of Nacozari, Sonora. December events December 8 – The Southern Pacific Bay Shore Cut-Off is opened for revenue service between San Francisco and San Bruno, California. December 14 – The Ravenswood extension on what is now the Brown Line opens between Western Avenue and the current terminal at Kimball and Lawrence Avenues in Albany Park. Unknown date events Government of India purchases most major railway companies and leases them back to private operators. Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad: The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad electrifies its mainline between Stamford and Woodlawn using a high-voltage (11 kV) AC single-phase 25 Hz overhead line system with a triangular cross-section catenary. The Deepwater Railway and the Tidewater Railway combine to form the Virginian Railway. Stearns Manufacturing Company is reorganized as Heisler Locomotive Works. The Apalachicola Northern Railroad runs its first train northward from Apalachicola, Florida. Edward Harriman removes Stuyvesant Fish from the presidency of the Illinois Central. Pennsylvania Railroad builds its third experimental electric locomotive, number 10003, the forerunner of the Pennsylvania Railroad class DD1 class of locomotives. The Lackawanna Railroad opens its Beaux Arts station in Hoboken, NJ. Accidents Births June births June 2 - Eric Treacy, British Anglican bishop and railway photographer (died 1978). November births November 1 - Terence Cuneo, British railway artist (died 1996). Deaths May deaths May 19 - Benjamin Baker, British civil engineer, designer of the Forth Railway Bridge (born 1840). October deaths October 3 – Jacob Nash Victor, oversaw construction for the California Southern Railroad from San Diego through Cajon Pass to Barstow, California (b. 1835). References