April 10 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1878 – Operations begin on the California Street Cable Railroad in San Francisco, California. [cite web| url=http://www.sfcablecar.com/history.html| title=San Francisco Cable Car History| date=2003| accessdate=2007-04-10]

20th century

* 1903 – Setting off a flurry of telegrams, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway General Counsel Victor Morawetz advises Edward Payson Ripley, then president of the Santa Fe, against purchasing the Randsburg Railway in California. [cite web| url=http://www.randsburg-railway.com/history.htm| title=History| work=Randsburg Railway| accessdate=2007-04-10]
* 1937 – The last train operates on Colorado and Southern Railway's line to Leadville, Colorado, which was originally built and operated by the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.

21st century

* 2006 – Kenyan officials announce that despite a court case to prevent the change of control, the South African led Rift Valley Railways Consortium will assume control of the Kenya-Uganda Railway in July 2006. The concession, initially agreed upon in 2005, is opposed and still disputed in court by former and current railway employees as well as Uganda's railway union citing disputes over pay and benefits. [cite news| url=http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-04-10T140938Z_01_BAN050953_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-KENYA-RAILWAYS-20060410.XML| title=Kenya to hand over railway to consortium in July| author=Reuters South Africa| date=April 10 2006| accessdate=2006-04-10| ]

Births

* 1835 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railroad, is born (d. 1900).
* 1903 – Edward T. Reidy, last president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1957-1968, is born.

Deaths

* 1921 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder, dies (b. 1840).
* 1923 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887-1907, dies (b. 1851).

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