January 2 – Chicago & North Western Railway begins 400 passenger train service between Chicago, Illinois, and Saint Paul, Minnesota; it was so named because the 400mile trip was intended to take 400minutes, though that pace wasn't quite reached until a few months later. Still, it was believed to be the fastest train in the world over a distance greater than 177 miles (285km).[1]
January 28 – To mark completion of the electric line from Washington DC to New York City, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs a special train hauled by Pennsylvania Railroad 4800, the electric locomotive making a round trip from Washington to Philadelphia setting a speed record on the return run of 1 hour 50minutes.[2][3][4] The line, with the GG1 locomotives, begins regular revenue service on February 10.
March 30 – The first section of the Itō Line, connecting Atami and Ajiro in Japan, is opened.
March 31 – The Glasgow Subway in Scotland is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system (inner circle; outer circle completed December 5).[8]
June 6 – Union Pacific’s M-10001 enters Chicago, Illinois to Rose City service as the “Streamlined City of Portland”. The 2,272-mile route was covered in 39.75 hours, 18 hours faster than the previous best time.
September – The 1935 Labor Day hurricane destroys much of the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West extension; an evacuation train from the island is on the bridges linking the keys with the Florida mainland at the time the storm hits and 259 lives are lost.
↑ Wright, John; Maclean, Ian (1997). Circles Under the Clyde – a history of the Glasgow Underground. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN978-1-85414-190-3.
↑ National Railway Historical Society (2003). "About the NRHS". Archived from the original on November 11, 2005. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
↑ Nock, O. S. (1972) [1971]. Speed Records on Britain's Railways: a chronicle of the steam era. The David & Charles series. London: Pan. pp.149–50. ISBN0-330-23365-3.
↑ Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum (2000). "General Atterbury". Archived from the original on March 9, 2005. Retrieved February 21, 2005.
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