  ==events== ===january=== * january &ndash; unable to keep his promises to shareholders, robert ralph young suspends dividends on new york central stock, a factor in his subsequent suicide on january 25. * january 1 &ndash; the chicago and north western railway acquires the litchfield and madison railway. ===february=== * february 4 &ndash; canada's kellog commission releases a report on the use of firemen as part of diesel locomotive crews. * february &ndash; the alaska railroad sells six ex-usatc s160 class 2-8-0 locomotives to the standard gauge ferrocarril de langreo in northern spain, where they are used on a new diversion built to avoid a cable railway. this will be the third transatlantic crossing for #3410. ===march=== * march 13 &ndash; queensland railways bb18Â¼ class 4-6-2 no. 1089, completed by walkers, maryborough, queensland, is the last main-line steam locomotive built in australia. ===april=== * april 26 &ndash; last day of regularly scheduled passenger service on the maine central railroad mountain division. ===june=== * june 22 &ndash; the cta congress branch opens for service in the median of the eisenhower expressway, pioneering the first use of rail rapid transit and a multi-lane automobile expressway in the same grade-separated right-of-way. it replaced the 1895-built garfield park 'l' route and alignment from des plaines avenue, forest park to the loop. * june 25 &ndash; the pennsylvania railroad discontinues the afternoon steeler passenger train between pittsburgh and cleveland. ===july=== * july &ndash; general motors electro-motive division introduces the emd sd24. * july 7 &ndash; the hudson and manhattan railroad reintroduces women-only cars on the railroad's commut
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