closure (first public train September 11). August 24 - The Boston and Maine Railroad replaces electric locomotive operation through the Hoosac Tunnel with diesel locomotives. August 27 - The last T1 class steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Pennsylvania Railroad enters service. September events September - The first production ALCO PA diesel-electric units are delivered for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the United States. September 29 - The Illinois Central Railroad fully dieselizes all passenger trains that it is operating between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. December events December 7 - The power car from the M-10002 streamliner trainset is sold to Northrup-Hendy for gas turbine train testing. December 8 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD NW5. December 20 - Libyan section of Western Desert Extension Railway closed. December 23 - 8,872,244 ride the New York City Subway system, the current one-day record. Unknown date events Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, England, construct 120 Liberation Class 2-8-0 steam locomotives to British Ministry of Supply order for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to supply to Eastern Europe. United States builders construct 160 KD7 Class 2-8-0 steam locomotives for the UNRRA to supply to China Railway; a similar design is supplied as Class 29 to Belgian Railways. General Electric builds the electric locomotive model that will soon become known as the Little Joe. André Chapelon’s 4-8-4 SNCF 242A1 prototype compound locomotive is completed in France; it goes on to achieve extraordinary power outputs and efficiencies in coal and water use. John W. Barriger III becomes president of the Monon Railroad. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad is merged into the Atlantic Coast Line. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, under the direction of Robert R. Young, places the largest single passenger car order with Pullman-Standard for nearly 300 cars. These cars entered service beginning in 1950. Births Deaths March deaths March 21 - Oliver Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902–1912, Director of the GNR and London and North Eastern Railway 1912–1945 (born 1861). November deaths November 10 - Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931–1946 (born 1879). References (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005. Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society (2004), History of the