Events January events January 1 – , in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, is renamed to . Société des Chemins de fer vicinaux du Mayumbe, the company that built and operated the Mayumbe line beginning in 1898, is merged with the Office des Transports Coloniaux (OTRACO). January 13 – Première of British documentary film Night Mail made by the GPO Film Unit. January 29 – The Sørland Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Kongsberg and Hjuksebø. March events March 20 – The 1936 flood ends train service on the Maine Central Railroad Rangeley branch north of Rumford, Maine. March 25 – The mirror blank for the Palomar observatory begins its cross-country trip aboard a special railroad car. May events May 7 – The Bratsberg Line in Norway takes electric traction into use. May 11 – Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's BR 05 class locomotive number 05 002 sets the world's speed record for steam locomotives at 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on a run between Hamburg and Berlin. May 12 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. May 15 – The first City of Los Angeles passenger train makes its debut, using the streamliner trainset M-10002, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. May 17 – Illinois Central’s streamliner Green Diamond makes its debut, running between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. May 20 – The first diesel locomotive rolls out of EMC’s LaGrange plant in McCook, Illinois: a 100-ton, switcher built for the Santa Fe Railroad. May – Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the first of the M-10003-6 streamliner power cars. June events June 14 – The M-10004 streamliner trainset enters service on the City of San Francisco passenger train. June 18 – The first City of Denver passenger train makes its debut running from Chicago, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. July events July 15 – The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. August events August 1 – The New Haven Railroad tests a new streamliner: a two-car Besler steam motor train. September events September 13 – Last regular passenger trains operate on Ashover Light Railway, the last steam-worked public passenger services on