Events

April events

• April 1 - The second American Freedom Train tour begins, powered by newly restored Southern Pacific 4449 , in Wilmington, Delaware. See also American Freedom Train - 1975-76 station stops.

June events

• June 6 - An overnight northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, does not receive warning of a temporary speed restriction resulting in the Nuneaton rail crash.

Unknown date events

• The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad files its third and final bankruptcy.
• As a result Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies.

Births

Deaths

References

• National Transportation Safety Board (March 15 2005), New NTSB publication examines 30-year history of transportation safety improvements. Retrieved March 15 2005.