After a year of revenue service, Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002streamliner trainset is removed from service; its power car is separated from its unpowered cars and the components are reused elsewhere.
Chicago's first rapid transit subway route, State Street subway (4.9 miles/7.9 km), opens for passenger service.[5] with stations at North/Clybourn, Clark/Division, Chicago, Grand, Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison, and Roosevelt. It contains one of the world's longest underground station platform – 3,300 feet (1,000 m) long.
December 16 – Two Atlantic Coast Linepassenger trains collide after a broken rail derails the first one, putting it in the path of the second. Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops.
The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads.