Events

February events

• February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division produces the new company's first Winton -engined diesel locomotives.

March events

• March 24 - Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey opens.

April events

• April 1 - The Flying Yankee trainset enters service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads between Portland, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts, and Bangor, Maine.
• April - The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Twin Zephyrs enter revenue service between Chicago, Illinois, and the Twin Cities.

June events

• June 5 - Union Pacific Railroad's refurbished M-10001 is dedicated as the City of Portland passenger train

September events

• September - The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 destroys much of the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West extension; an evacuation train from the island was on the bridges linking the keys with the Florida mainland at the time the storm hit and 259 lives were lost.

Unknown date events

• The Milwaukee Road enters bankruptcy.
• The Goodyear-Zeppelin Company completes construction on the Comet streamlined passenger trainset for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
• General Motors builds a new manufacturing plant in LaGrange, Illinois, to house the Electro-Motive Division.
• The Glasgow Subway is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system.
• The National Model Railroad Association is founded in the United States.

Births

Deaths

December deaths

• December - Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern United States railroads (b. 1881).

Unknown date deaths

• William W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (b. 1866).

References

• Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum (2000), General Atterbury. Retrieved February 21 2005.
• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History 154, p. 9-15.