March 7:  The Copper Range Railroad experiences a strike by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, which results in a complete suspension of operations until April 28.  [CRAR]

June 16:  The Copper Range Railroad coal dock at Houghton is razed.  The need for coal was lessened because the railroad has dieselized and the Freda stamp mill has converted to electricity. [CRH]

June:  Production begins at EMD's London, Ontario plant.  [LTimes/9-16-2003]

July 19:  Ann Arbor RR runs last passenger train  from Elberta to Toledo.   [MDOT]

July 30:  PRR ends passenger service between Grand Rapids and Muskegon.  At the end, the line employed a "doodlebug".  [PRHTS-W-2000]

December 31:  Michigan Railroad Mileage Totaled 6,803 miles.   [MDOT]

Pennsylvania discontinues passenger service from Muskegon to Grand Rapids.   [MDOT]

Buses transport 38% of intercity passengers.  Trucks transport 16% of intercity freight traffic.  [STOV]

Nationally, there are 223,779 miles of railroad track.  [STOV]

Pennsylvania Railroad leads the country in freight revenue.   [STOV]

The Copper Range Railroad purchases its first diesel locomotive.  [CRAR]

The last steam engines run on the former Port Huron & Northwestern lines of the Pere Marquette.  [AB]

The Escanaba & Lake Superior purchases a Russell snowplow from the Ford Motor Company's abandoned logging railroad at L'Anse, Michigan.  [EDP-12/27/1950]

Baldwin Locomotive Works buys Lima-Hamilton Corporation and becomes Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton.  [SAM]

General Motors diesel Ltd. (GMDL) is created in Canada.  It is later changed to the General Motors Diesel Division (GMDD).  [SAM]

The New York Central opens its new toledo Central Terminal.  The station had through tracks for main line trains, as well as stub tracks for mail and express.  [NYCF].  The offices in the facility also contained the Toledo East and Toledo West dispatcher CTC equipment, operating the line from Berea, Ohio west to Elkhart, Indiana.