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Events
February events
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February 24 -Grand Trunk Railway acquires theNorthern and Northwestern Railway .Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005 ), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". RetrievedDecember 28 2005 .]April events
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April 1 - TheOld Colony Railroad leases theBoston and Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years.June events
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June 15 - The first train toCasper, Wyoming , operating on theChicago and North Western Railway , arrives. [cite web|author="Casper Star-Tribune"|date=June 22 2005 |url=http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt|title=BP Amoco Timeline|accessdate=2005-06-22]August events
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August 12 - Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary companies complete construction of the final link in what has come to be known as theSurf Line connecting Los Angeles and San Diego. [cite book|author=Duke, Donald, and Kistler, Stan|title=Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California|year=1963|publisher=Golden West Books|location=San Marino, California|isbn=0-87095-009-6|pages=p 43]September events
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September 10 - The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the firstpassenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in theUnited States west ofChicago, Illinois , on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities. [cite web|url=http://www.mrha.com/history.cfm|title=A Brief History of the Milwaukee Road|author=Milwaukee Road Historical Association|accessdate=2006-04-28]
*September 18 - The first revenue train on theCanada Atlantic Railway 's Chaudière Extension departs forChaudière Falls ,Ontario (nearOttawa ). [cite web|author=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages|date=September 7 2005 |url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm|title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history|accessdate=2005-09-18]December events
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December 29 - First train crossesPoughkeepsie Bridge ,New York . [Structurae|id=s0001420|title=Poughkeepsie Bridge]Unknown date events
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway begins through service betweenKansas City, Kansas , andChicago, Illinois , over the railroad's newly completed line. [cite book|author=Santa Fe Railroad|date=1945 |title=Along Your Way|publisher=Rand McNally|location=Chicago, Illinois]
* SirWilliam Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of theCanadian Pacific Railway . [cite web|author="Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7754|title=Biography|accessdate=2007-07-18] [cite book|author=Knowles, Valerie|title=From Telegrapher to Titan : the life of William C. Van Horne|date=2004|publisher=Dundurn|location=Toronto|isbn=1-55002-488-4]
* TheCanadian Pacific acquires control of theSoo Line , renaming it to the "Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad".Births
Deaths
April deaths
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April 19 -Thomas Russell Crampton , Englishsteam locomotive designer who produced theCrampton locomotive type as well as atunnel boring machine for theChannel Tunnel (b.1816 ). [cite web|author=Steamindex|date=September 25 2004 |url=http://www.steamindex.com/people/crampton.htm|title=Thomas Crampton|accessdate=2005-02-09]June deaths
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June 14 -Charles Crocker , a member ofThe Big Four group of financiers inCalifornia (b.1822 ).References
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