train's equipment will be replaced with electric multiple unit cars the next day. Unknown date events The Southern Pacific Railroad gains 87% control of the Cotton Belt Railroad (St. Louis Southwestern Railway). Angus Daniel McDonald succeeds Paul Shoup as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Hale Holden steps down as Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Southern Pacific Company. With Holden's departure, this position is eliminated. Holden then assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for the company. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reduces train frequencies on its subsidiary Grand Canyon Railway from twice daily to once daily. The Lake Shore Electric Railway in Ohio declares bankruptcy. New Zealand Railways introduces K class 4-8-4 steam locomotives built in its Hutt Workshops. First Franco-Crosti boilered locomotive built, Belgian State Railways No 2096, an 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0 articulated. An electric Children's railway operates in Gorky Park (Moscow), Soviet Union. Accidents Deaths March deaths March 7 - William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (born 1854). References