1935 in rail transport - Definition

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1935.

Events

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.

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.

Births

Deaths

December deaths

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