Events January events January 3 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas. February events February – The Canadian Locomotive Company is formed from the assets of the bankrupt Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company. February 2 – The body of Queen Victoria is conveyed by the London & South Western, London, Brighton & South Coast and Great Western Railways from Gosport via London to Windsor, England for her funeral. March events March 1 – First section of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway opens to the public. April events April 1 – The West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is opened throughout to Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland. April 1 – Atlantic Coast Line Railroad acquires the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in North Carolina. April 11 – The Ōu South Line in Japan opens between Yonezawa and Yamagata. May events May Frederick D. Underwood succeeds Eben B. Thomas as president of the Erie Railroad. Gold Coast Government Railway opens from Sekondi on the coast to Tarkwa. May 27 – Sanyo Railroad Line, Kobe to Bakan (Shimonoseki Station renamed from June 1902) route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of JR Sanyo Line). June events June – First section of Gold Coast Railway (3 ft 6 in gauge) opens from Sekondi on the Gulf of Guinea to the gold mining district of Tarkwa. June 14 – The Atlantic City Railroad (predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) is incorporated from the merger of the Camden County Railroad, Ocean City Railroad and Seacoast Railroad. June 24 – The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) is formed through the merger of eight smaller American steam locomotive manufacturers. July events July 25 – The Hull Electric Railway officially begins regular service over the Interprovincial Bridge between Ottawa and Aylmer, Quebec. August events August 5 – Queenscliff Junction, in Victoria, Australia, is closed. September events September 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), having purchased the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and renamed it to the Grand Canyon Railway, begins to operate a passenger train service over its new subsidiary railroad between Williams, Arizona, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon as a destination for ATSF's customers. October events October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 Hz frequency on the Royal Prussian