June 16:  The last steam engine, a Hudson type 4-6-4, number 5434, is run on the former Michigan Central portion of the New York Central.  [MT]

September:  The New York Central abandons its line from Monroe to Ida.  [MRC-5/1973]

December 8:  The Chesapeake & Ohio  restarts car ferry service between Port Huron and Sarnia. It had been stopped by the Pere Marquette  in 1933.   [AB]

December 29:  Electric train operations through the Detroit River railroad tunnel ends, replaced by diesel locomotives.    [MDOT]

Detroit, Caro and Sandusky Railway abandons the remainder of its line from Caro to Roseburg (:former Detroit, Bay City & Western).  Other portions had been abandoned on several other years.  [MRRC]

A half-dozen U.S. railroads offer TOFC "piggy-back" service.  [STOV]

The Copper Range Railroad experiences a heavy movement of forest products on the Gay branch, and increaed shipments of copper rock from Painesdale to the Freda mill on the Freda Branch.  [CRAR]

KC brakes are banned from interchange.  [SAM]

The DSS&A branch to White Pine is completed and opened.  [RO]