This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1936.
May events
May 7 – The Bratsberg Line in Norway takes electric traction into use.[5]
May 11 – Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft 's BR 05 class locomotive number 05 002 sets the world's speed record for steam locomotives at 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on a run between Hamburg and Berlin .
May 12 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois , and Los Angeles, California .
May 15 – The first City of Los Angeles passenger train makes its debut, using the streamliner trainset M-10002 , running from Chicago, Illinois , to Los Angeles, California , on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad .
May 17 – Illinois Central ’s streamliner Green Diamond makes its debut, running between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri .
May 20 – The first diesel locomotive rolls out of EMC ’s LaGrange plant in McCook, Illinois : a 100-ton, 600 horsepower (450 kW) switcher built for the Santa Fe Railroad .
May – Union Pacific Railroad takes delivery of the first of the M-10003-6 streamliner power cars.
October events
October – Special nonstop Chicago– Denver run in advance of introducing California Zephyr service
June deaths
June 8 – Alfred de Glehn , English-born French designer of steam locomotives (born 1848).
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"Super Zephyr Breaks Mark" . The Daily Sentinel . Grand Junction, Colorado. Associated Press. October 24, 1936. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering. Volume 2, 1955-1966 . p. 72.
Schafer, Mike; Welsh, Joe (1997). Classic American Streamliners . Osceola, Wisconsin: MBI Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 0-7603-0377-0 .