This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1935.
January events
- January 2 – Chicago & North Western Railway begins 400 passenger train service between Chicago, Illinois, and Saint Paul, Minnesota; it was so named because the 400 mile trip was intended to take 400 minutes, 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 (285 km).[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 50 minutes.[2][3][4] The line, with the GG1 locomotives, begins regular revenue service on February 10.
- January 31 – Union Pacific's M-10000 enters service as the City of Salina between Salina, Kansas, and Kansas City. The 116 seat train carries an average 280 passengers per round trip.
March events
- March 20 – Kotoku Line, Takamatsu to Tokushima route officially completed with regular operation service to start in Shikoku Island, Japan.[5]
- March 23 – The North Manchuria Railway, the former Chinese Eastern Railway within the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, is sold by the Soviet Union to the Manchukuo Government;[6] it is then merged into the Manchukuo National Railway and converted from Russian to standard gauge on August 31 between 05:00 and 08:00 hours.[7]
- March 24 – Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey, opens.
- March 27 – Electro-Motive Corporation breaks ground in McCook, Illinois, for their new locomotive factory.
- 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]
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- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: May. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
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"官報. 1935年10月28日" [Official Bulletin. 28 October 1935] (in Japanese). October 28, 1935. Retrieved December 1, 2021.