The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads. Unknown date events The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America, opens for railroad service. After a few years of only producing diesel engines for the United States Navy during World War II, General Motors Electro-Motive Division returns to manufacturing railroad locomotives. The last PRR GG1 to be built is completed. Electrification between Limoges and Montauban on the SNCF in Vichy France completes an electrified rail route from Paris to the Mediterranean. Accidents Births September births September 7 – Chris Green, British railway manager. Deaths February deaths February 9 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (born 1877). February 11 – Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900–1905 (born 1859). June deaths June 2 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (born 1853). References Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15, 2005.