Events

February events

• February 11 - The first Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.

July events

• July - Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from active service on the City of Portland and placed in storage.

August events

• August 14 - Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 streamliner trainset is sold for scrap.

October events

• October - Robert E. Woodruff becomes president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

• November 17 - The Prospector multiple unit passenger trainset debuts on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in operating between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Unknown date events

• Armand Mercier succeeds Angus Daniel McDonald as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad
• The Heisler Locomotive Works produces the last Heisler locomotive.
• The Hollywood, a lounge car built for use on the City of Los Angeles becomes the first passenger car whose interior is built entirely out of synthetic materials. The car's interior featured the newly invented materials of formica and naugahyde.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD TR1.

Births

Deaths

April deaths

• April 5 - Nigel Gresley, Chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway 1923–1941 (b. 1876).

Unknown date deaths

• Angus Daniel McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1932–1941 (b. 1878).
• Alonzo C. Mather, founder of Mather Stock Car Company, designed the first widely-recognized humane stock car (b. 1848).
• Frederick Methvan Whyte, mechanical engineer for the New York Central railroad, creator of Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives (b. 1865).

References

• Dieffenbacher, Jane (2002), Mather Family of Fairfield, NY. Retrieved March 24 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• The McDonald bloodline. Retrieved February 15 2005.
• (December 9 2004), Sir Nigel Gresley. Retrieved February 9 2005.