Events

February events

  • February 3 - New South Wales Tulloch double deck carriage stock debuts

April events

  • April 6 - Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.

thumb|The [[Yellow Line (Chicago Transit Authority)|Skokie Swift in service, May 1964]]

  • April 20 - The Skokie Swift high-speed rapid transit route of the Chicago Transit Authority 'L' system begins service between the Howard Street Terminal in Rogers Park and Dempster Street in Skokie.
  • April 29 - The Keiō Dōbutsuen Line in Japan opens.

June events

  • June 6 - Southern Railway 4501 is taken down to Chattanooga, Tennessee for restoration by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
  • June 15 - The 2000-series rapid transit cars (2001–2180), built by Pullman-Standard of Chicago, Illinois, are placed in service on the Chicago "L" system. These cars represent the first generation of the Chicago Transit Authority High Performance Family.
  • June 19 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson presides over the groundbreaking ceremonies for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
  • June 30 - End of regularly scheduled steam locomotive service on the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.

July events

  • July - The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 becomes law in the United States.

August events

  • August 3 - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is established, replacing the MTA

September events

  • September 14 - R32 (New York City Subway car) debuts
  • September 30 - The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland is formed.

October events

  • October 1
  • The Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed route commences operation in Japan; it is the first of many Shinkansen routes to be constructed.
  • Toei Subway Line 1 (present-day Asakusa Line) opens between Shimbashi and Daimon in Tokyo, Japan. This is the fifth extension of the line since it opened in 1960.
  • October 9 - End of District line service to Hounslow on the London Underground.

November events

  • November 5 - Swaziland Railway opened.
  • November 15 - Shin-Sayama Station on what becomes the Seibu Railway's Seibu Shinjuku Line in Sayama, Saitama, Japan, is opened.

December events

  • December 19 - The Elektrische Bahn Stansstad–Engelberg in Switzerland reopens with a connection to the national rail network at Hergiswil and conversion to 15 kV AC railway electrification as the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.
  • December 23 - In Tokyo, Japan, the Tozai Line begins service between Takadanobaba and Kudanshita.

Unknown date events

  • The Wabash, Nickel Plate Road, Pittsburgh and West Virginia and Akron, Canton and Youngstown railroads are all merged into the Norfolk & Western.
  • Swiss Federal Railways introduces its Re 4/4<sup>II</sup> series electric locomotives, built by SLM.
  • Double-deck cars introduced on suburban railways in Sydney, Australia.
  • Benjamin Biaggini succeeds Donald Russell as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
  • Donald Russell assumes the position of chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, a position that was nonexistent since Hale Holden's departure in 1939.
  • ALCO is purchased by the Worthington Corporation.
  • The above-ground portion of Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Station in New York City is demolished to make room for Madison Square Gardens, but the tracks remain in use today.
  • Robert A. "Bob" Emerson succeeds Norris Roy Crump as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.

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