Events January events January 10 – The Tama Toshi Monorail Line extension from Tachikawa-Kita Station to Tama-Center Station in Japan opens. January 28 – Amtrak extends electric train operation on the Northeast Corridor from New Haven to South Station, Boston. January 29 – The renovated Termini station in Rome opens as part of the Great Jubilee. February events February 4 – German railway saboteur Klaus-Peter Sabotta is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted murder and extortion. March events March 4 – San Francisco Municipal Railway F Market & Wharves streetcar line is extended to Fisherman's Wharf. March 13 – Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías inaugurates Fátima station on the Buenos Aires Premetro. April events April 10 – In Ireland, the Dublin Area Rapid Transit system is extended southwards from Bray to Greystones and northwards from Howth Junction to Malahide. April 11 – CSX chairman and CEO John W. Snow succeeds Ronald J. Conway as president of the railroad. April 20–28 – 3801 and 3830 head to Melbourne, Victoria called the Millennium Aurora by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum during the Easter Long Weekend. This would be the last time that NSW steam will ever visit Victoria. May events May 11 –Tramlink opens in London, the first trams in London since 1952, largely on former heavy rail or reserved track formation. May 23 – Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad. June events June 1 – The Amtrak California San Diegan is extended further north to San Luis Obispo and the service is renamed to Pacific Surfliner. June 7 – The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America. June 30 - The Texas Transportation Company closed. July events July 1 – Opening of the Øresund Bridge bridge-tunnel carrying road traffic and the Øresund Railway between Denmark and Sweden. July 4 – Amtrak's new Bakersfield Station opens. July 9 – Metro-North Railroad restored service on the Harlem Line between Dover Plains and Wassaic, a move the railroad billed as its first service expansion since it was created in 1983. July 11 – Via Rail announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg