Company cars purchased for The Canadian. Despite running between two Canadian cities, this service is international, since this CPR route runs across the state of Maine (see: International Railway of Maine). October events October 16 - Ceremonial last day of steam locomotives on the Long Island Rail Road. October 30 - The Union Pacific Railroad's Overland Route passenger trains shift from the Chicago and North Western Railway to the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") east of Council Bluffs, Iowa. November events November - Prototype Deltic diesel locomotive enters service on British Railways. 3 November - New Zealand Government Railways replaces Rimutaka Incline by opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel on the Wairarapa Line, at 8.79 km (5.46 mi) the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time. The line becomes the first in New Zealand to be wholly dieselised. 5 November - Racial segregation is outlawed on trains and buses in Interstate commerce in the United States. 15 November - Leningrad Metro opens in Russia. 20 November - Milton rail crash: a passenger train takes a crossover too fast and derails at Milton, near Didcot, England. 11 killed, 157 injured December events 2 December - Barnes rail crash, Barnes, South London, England: collision due to signal error and consequent fire. 13 killed, 35 injured 4 December - İstanbul Commuter Railway opened. Unknown date events Trans-Mongolian Railway is completed to Erenhot on the Chinese border. Dome cars are added to the City of Los Angeles as regular equipment. Last steam locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the United States, Indian Railways standard gauge 2-8-2 goods locomotives to Class WG. American Locomotive Company is renamed to Alco Products, Inc. Ramses Station, Cairo (Egyptian National Railways) is refurbished. Norris Roy Crump succeeds George Walker as president of Canadian Pacific Railway. Accidents Births March births March 1 - Peter Zars, the first on-train birth aboard the California Zephyr passenger train (while the train passes through Ruby Canyon). July births July 22 - Richard J. Corman, founder and owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, is born (died 2013). Deaths March deaths March 15 - William R. Coe, chief executive officer of Virginian Railway during World War II (born 1869). June deaths June 5 - C. P. Couch, president of KCS 1939-1941 (born 1890). References Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: May. Retrieved May 27,