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Events
April events
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Union Pacific Railroad 'sM-10002 streamliner trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection betweenSeattle, Washington , andPortland, Oregon .May events
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May 1 – The last pre-warstreamliner , the Illinois Central Railroad's refurbished "Panama Limited ", is put into service.June events
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June 13 – Service is discontinued on theIRT Second Avenue Line , anelevated railway inManhattan ,New York City .
*June 22 – Work starts on construction of theBurma Railway betweenBangkok ,Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (nowMyanmar ), by theEmpire of Japan to support its forces in theBurma campaign using theforced labour of Asian civilians and AlliedPrisoners of war .July events
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July 5 – Themultiple unit passenger trainsets used by theDenver and Rio Grande Western Railroad on the "Prospector" betweenDenver, Colorado , andSalt Lake City, Utah , are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standardlocomotive s and unpowered passenger cars.
*July 11 – A section of theSind Peshin State Railway in theChappar Rift , in present dayPakistan , is destroyed by aflash flood ; the line has not been rebuilt. [cite web| publisher=Indian Railways Fan Club| url=http://irfca.org/faq/faq-history3.html| title=IR History: Part - III (1900 - 1947)| accessdate=2005-07-07 ]August events
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August 8 – The "Mumbai Rajdhani"passenger train , one of many "Rajdhani Express " trains, is inaugurated byMahatma Gandhi inMumbai ,India .eptember events
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September 8 – "Unspiking" ceremony atPromontory Summit as the originalCentral Pacific /Union Pacific line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout theUnited States .December events
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December 27 –Almonte, Ontario ,Canada : Thirty-six people are killed and over 200 injured when a passenger train running late was struck from behind by a troop train.cite web| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=December 12 2005 | url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| accessdate=2005-12-27 ]Unknown date events
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Samuel Hopkins Adams publishes his novel "The Harvey Girls" commemorating theHarvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that served passengers of theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway .
*D'Alton Cory Coleman succeeds SirEdward Wentworth Beatty as president of theCanadian Pacific Railway Births
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