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{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2011}}{{Year in rail transport|prev=1953|curr=1954|next=1955|decade=1950}}EventsJanuary- January 3 – The last steam locomotive powered passenger train departs Washington Union Station; Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad engine number 622 Carter Braxton pulls the train, leaving at approximately 1:40 PM bound for Richmond, Virginia.
- January 8 – Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Limited becomes the first train to use the new New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
- January 20 – The Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, the second line in the system and the first built after World War II, is opened between Ikebukuro and Ochanomizu stations.
- January 24 – Cleveland, Ohio, streetcars make their last revenue run.
- January – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD F9 and GP9.
February- February 21 – An SNCF electric train hits 151 mph (243 km/h) in tests, setting a world’s record.
- February – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP9.
March- March 30 – Yonge subway, the first segment of the Toronto subway and the first underground rapid transit line in Canada, begins operation.[1][2]
April- April 20 – The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road") opens a new station in Tacoma, Washington.
- April 30 – Last day of steam locomotive operations and passenger train service on the Clinchfield Railroad.
May- May – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E9.
June- June 6 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the San Francisco Chief passenger train between Chicago and San Francisco.
- June 13 – Last day of steam locomotive operation on the Maine Central Railroad.[3]
- June 14 – New York Central management loses a proxy fight for control of the railroad to Robert Ralph Young and his Alleghany Corporation.
- June – General Electric delivers the first diesel-electric locomotives built for the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.[4]
July- July 2 – SNCF electrifies first section of Valenciennes–Thionville line, the first non-experimental 25 kV AC railway electrification.
- July 4 – Budd delivers the first Château series car, Château Bienville, to Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal.
- July – New Zealand Railways Department introduces DF class (built by English Electric) into service, the country's first mainline diesel-electric locomotives.[5]
August- August 7 – The last streetcars operate on the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
October- October 16 – The Southern Pacific dieselizes its 3 foot (914 mm) gauge Keeler branch.
- October 20 – To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Horseshoe Curve, the Sylvania Electric Products Corporation sponsors a night photograph of the Curve using more than 6500 flashbulbs.
November - November 29 – The first dome cars built by Budd Company enter revenue service on Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway's North Coast Limited.{{fact|date=August 2013}}
December- December – Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway open the new Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee.
- December – Pullman-Standard builds the first bilevel commuter coaches for the Southern Pacific Railroad to use in the south San Francisco Bay Area.
- December – The last steam locomotive on the Southern Railway (U.S.) is retired from standby service.
Unknown date- Circular Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro completed.
- American Car and Foundry officially changes its name to ACF Industries, Inc.
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway divests itself of the Grand Canyon Hotel and other buildings at the north end of the Grand Canyon Railway.
- Netherlands Railway Museum moves to the former Maliebaan station.
Births{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}Deaths January deaths - January 5 – Death Valley Scotty (born Walter Edward Scott; pictured), con man who chartered the Scott Special record-breaking run on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1905, dies (born 1872).
December deaths- December 15 – Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (born 1884).
References - Bianchi, Curt (May 1995), "By steam to the Grand Canyon", Trains Magazine, p. 38–45.
- Horseshoe Curve Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, "Under the Wire", [https://web.archive.org/web/20051028002317/http://www.trainweb.org/horseshoecurve-nrhs/History-1.htm The Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway: 1891–1954]. Retrieved August 7, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This month in railroad history – November. Retrieved November 28, 2005.
1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm|work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages|date=2006-03-17|title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history|accessdate=2006-03-29|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023182151/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm|archivedate=2006-10-23}}
2. ^{{cite web|author=City of Toronto|url=http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/history.htm|title=Toronto Transit Commission – History|year=2006|accessdate=2006-03-29}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Best of Maine Railroads|last=Johnson|first=Ron|publisher=Portland Litho|year=1985|page=112}}
4. ^{{cite book|first=Cy|last=Martin|year=1974|title=Gold Rush Narrow Gauge|edition=2nd|page=64|publisher=Trans-Anglo Books|location=Corona del Mar, California|isbn=0-87046-026-9}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://web.mac.com/mikeanz/dtg/Df_1501.html|title=DF 1501|publisher=Diesel Traction Group Inc|accessdate=2010-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302202424/http://web.mac.com/mikeanz/dtg/Df_1501.html|archive-date=March 2, 2012|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}
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