- Interfrigo set up to manage stock of refrigerated vans on European railways. Unknown date events Budd Rail Diesel Car introduced. First of final steam locomotive class to be built for Soviet Railways, express passenger class P36 4-8-4 П36-001, is turned out of Kolomna Locomotive Works. There will be 251 examples, the most of this wheel arrangement outside the United States. Summer - Construction starts on the ill-fated Salekhard-Igarka Railway in Siberian Arctic. Accidents Births January births January 19 - David Laney, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Amtrak 2003–2007. Deaths March deaths March 31 - Grant Stauffer, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1948–1949, dies. May deaths May - Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925-1929 (born 1887). Notes References