– London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4-6-0 Royal Scot number 6152 (of the LMS Royal Scot Class locomotives) departs the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, bound for Vancouver, British Columbia. November events November 9 – Canadian National Railway's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, opens. December events December 24 – Lagny-Pomponne rail accident: A collision between Lagny and Pomponne (east of Paris) leaves over 200 dead in the second worst railroad disaster in French history. Unknown date events The Cache-Two Rivers trestle on the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway is severely damaged by flood waters. Repairs prove too costly and it is closed, effectively cutting the railway into two pieces, leading to its demise in 1959. Accidents Births Deaths December 19 - George Jackson Churchward, former Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902–1922, is struck down by one of his own locomotives at Swindon (born 1857). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11, 2005.