its 'Castle' Class 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotives from its Swindon Works, No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle, into service. September events September 27 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history. Unknown date events U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission allows Southern Pacific's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that it is in the public's interest. Munising, Marquette & Southeastern Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway merge to form the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. The Gold Coast Government Railway's Accra–Kumasi direct line is completed. Births Unknown date births Robert R. Dowty, construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (died 2004). Margaret Landry Moore, "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger trains (died 2005). Frank Turpin, CEO of Alaska Railroad, 1985–1993 (died 2005). Deaths April deaths April 10 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of Illinois Central 1887–1907 (born 1851). May deaths May 16 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (born 1864). October deaths October 25 – Henry Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Northern Railway of England 1896–1911 (born 1851). December deaths December 5 – Sir William Mackenzie, part owner of Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern predecessors (born 1849). December 10 – Thomas George Shaughnessy, president of Canadian Pacific 1899–1918 (born 1853). References