July 4 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1828 – Construction begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1851 – Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the Pacific Railroad Company, a railroad later to become the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
* 1879 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Las Vegas, New Mexico.Santa Fe Railroad (1945), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.]

20th century

* 1996 – SNCF's president Loïk Le Floch-Prigent is imprisoned at the Santé prison in Paris. He was accused of being part of the Elf scandal.

21st century

* 2002 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division announces that it will build new locomotives for HSBC Rail; the locomotives will be leased by CargoNet for use in Norway north of the Arctic Circle and are expected to enter service after February 2003.
* 2005 – EWS is presented with the Award for Innovation from International Freighting Weekly for the railroad's design of a new parcel cage it is using between the West Midlands and central Scotland.

Births

Deaths

19th century

* 1887 – Anson P. Morrill, president of Maine Central Railroad 1864-1866 and 1873-1875 (b. 1803).Biographical Directory of the United States Congress " [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000967 MORRILL, Anson Peaslee, (1803 - 1887)] ". Retrieved December 29 2005.]

20th century

* 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (b. 1884).
* 1976 – Fred Gurley, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1944-1957 (b. 1889). [cite journal| journal=Railway Age| title=Short and Significant: Santa Fe's Fred Gurley dies at 87| month=July 26| year=1976| pages=p 8| volume=177| issue=13 ]

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