class are built in North America. July 31 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division completes the EMD F3 demonstrator. August events August 9 – Michigan train wreck: Near Michigan City, North Dakota, the second section of the Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder rear-ends the stalled first section at an estimated 45 mph, killing 34 people and injuring 110 others. The first section had been forced to stop due to a hotbox on the locomotive's tender; the collision occurs before a flagman had time to protect the rear of the train. August 14 – Kyōbashi Station becomes one of the last sites to be bombed in Japan during World War II when a one-ton bomb directly strikes the Katamachi Line platform as part of the bombing of Osaka, killing 700 to 800 evacuees. August 24 – The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which has operated between Merced, California, and Yosemite National Park, runs its last trains. August – The Chinese Eastern Railway comes under the joint control of China and the Soviet Union. September events September 27 – The Arlberg Orient Express resumes operations after World War II. October events October 2 – Piccadilly Circus tube station becomes the first on the London Underground to be lit by fluorescent light. December events December 1 – The Milwaukee Road emerges from its 1935 bankruptcy through reorganization. December 13 – The New York Central Railroad places what is up to now the largest single order for passenger equipment: 420 cars. Unknown date events Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company established in India. Births Deaths June deaths June 14 – Matthew S. Sloan, president of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, in New York City (born 1881). July deaths July 5 – Julius Dorpmüller, German railway administrator (born 1869). October deaths October 12 – Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (born 1887). October 27 – George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (born 1865). Accidents References