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Events
February events
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February 22 -Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (the "Big Four Railroad") gains control of thePeoria and Eastern Railway in southernIllinois . [(August 31 2005 ), " [http://www.cumtd.com/itc/rail_history.html History of Champaign-Urbana Transportation - Part 3: Railroads] ". RetrievedFebruary 22 2006 .]March events
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March 4 - The Forth Bridge across theFirth of Forth inScotland is officially opened and its contractor,William Arrol ,knight ed. [cite book|last=Thomas|first=John|title=The North British Railway, vol. 2|date=1975|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-6699-8]August events
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August 18 - TheKansas City Suburban Belt Railroad , a predecessor ofKansas City Southern Railway , begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine. [cite web|author=Kansas City Southern Historical Society|url=http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm|title=The Kansas City Southern Lines|accessdate=2005-08-15]
*August 19 -Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiaryOhio Valley Railway reorganized as thePittsburg, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad .November events
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November 4 - Official opening of theCity & South London Railway , earliest constituent of theNorthern Line of theLondon Underground and the first real deep-level electrified "tube" railway in the world. [cite book|author=Gillham, J. C.|title=The Age of the Electric Train: Electric Trains in Britain since 1883|year=1988|publisher=Ian Allan|location=London|isbn=0-7110-1392-6]
*November 26 - TheMito Railway , inJapan , operates its first freight trains.Unknown date events
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Leland Stanford begins his term as Chairman of the Executive Committee forSouthern Pacific Railroad .
*Charles Francis Adams, Jr. steps down from the presidency of theUnion Pacific Railroad . [cite web|author=Soylent Communications|date=2005 |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/488/000082242/|title=Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|accessdate=2005-02-21]Births
August births
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August 16 -C. P. Couch , president ofKansas City Southern Railway 1939 -1941 (d.1955 ).Deaths
September deaths
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September 30 –Frederick H. Billings , president ofNorthern Pacific Railway 1879 -1881 (b.1823 ).References
* Morris, J. C., compiler (
December 31 1902 ), " [http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1870.html Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio] ". RetrievedAugust 16 2005 .
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