Events January events January 1 – Government of India takes over Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and Assam Bengal Railway, merging the latter with the Eastern Bengal Railway to form the Bengal Assam Railway. April events April – Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. April 29 – LNER A4 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood is destroyed in the bombing of York sheds. May events May 1 – The last pre-war streamliner, the Illinois Central Railroad's refurbished Panama Limited, is put into service. May – Deutsche Reichsbahn begins planning for Hitler's proposed pan-European Breitspurbahn broad-gauge railway. May – D'Alton Corry Coleman succeeds Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. June events June – First deliveries of USATC S200 Class 2-8-2 locomotives, to British Middle East forces. 200 are built to standard gauge. June – First USATC S100 Class 0-6-0T switchers enter service in Britain, first of nearly 400 built for service in the European theater. June 13 – Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City. June 22 – Work starts on construction of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), by the Empire of Japan to support its forces in the Burma campaign using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war. July events July 5 – The multiple unit passenger trainsets used by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad on the Prospector between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard locomotives and unpowered passenger cars. July 11 A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in modern-day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt. Golden Spike ceremony on the Claiborne–Polk Military Railroad, running 50 miles (80 km) from Camp Claiborne to Fort Polk on the Kansas City Southern south of Leesville, Louisiana. August events August 8 – The Mumbai Rajdhani passenger train is inaugurated in India. September events September 8 – "Unspiking" ceremony at Promontory Summit as the original Central Pacific/Union Pacific line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout the United States. October events October 1 – United States Army 770th Railway Operating Battalion takes operational control