Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Green Line opens. August 14 – Malaysia's first electric commuter train service, the KTM Komuter, begins with 18 EMUs from Jenbacher Transport serving the – sector. September events September 1 - The F Market heritage streetcar line in San Francisco opens, using restored PCC streetcars. September 10 - Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger train is permanently rerouted between Memphis and Jackson due to the Illinois Central Railroad's desire to abandon the original route (the Grenada District) in favor of the newer and flatter Yazoo District. September 22 - The holding companies of the Burlington Northern Railroad and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Burlington Northern, Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corp., merge. October events October 9 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited derails near Palo Verde, Arizona by act of sabotage, killing one and injuring 78. October 26 - Canadian National Railway reopens commuter service between Montreal's Gare Centrale and Deux-Montagnes using new electric multiple unit rolling stock. November events November 1 – Telecom Center Station in Kōtō, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, opens. November 11 - The first line of Metro Bilbao in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) opens. November 28 - Canadian National Railway is privatized from the Canadian government. December events December 6 - Indian Railways withdraws its last broad gauge steam locomotives, from Jalandhar–Ferozepur service. December 9 - British mail and parcels carrier Rail Express Systems is acquired by North & South Railways, an affiliate of Wisconsin Central Ltd, as part of the privatisation of British Rail, the first operating company to be sold. December 16 – Bay Area Rapid Transit opens an extension to North Concord/Martinez station, the first such expansion of service past the original system built in the 1970s. December 28 - Lyublinsko–Dmitrovskaya line is opened. December 31 - The Interstate Commerce Commission in the United States is dissolved effective today; many of the railroad duties performed by the ICC are transferred to the newly formed Surface Transportation Board. Unknown date events Canadian National Railway opens the tunnel under the St. Clair River, connecting Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan. China Railway opens the Jitong or Jining–Tongliao railway (945 km (587 mi)) in Inner Mongolia. For its first decade, it will be operated entirely by steam locomotives (chiefly QJ class) and with semaphore signals. Accidents August 11 - The Russell Hill subway accident, the first fatal accident on Toronto's subway system