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Events
March events
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March 1 -Japan 'sMito Railway is consolidated into theJapanese National Railways .April events
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April 17 -Canada Atlantic Railway leases theCentral Counties Railway , which connected Glen Robertson andHawkesbury, Ontario . [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=April 11 2006 | accessmonthday=16 April | accessyear=2006 ]May events
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May 20 - The lastbroad gauge train runs on theGreat Western Railway main line out ofLondon 'sPaddington station .June events
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June 6 - TheChicago 'L' begins operations. The South Side Elevated Railroad opens for traffic between downtownChicago and 39th Street (3.6 miles/5.8 km) using steam locomotives.
*June 7 -Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train inNew Orleans . The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision inPlessy v. Ferguson in1896 .
*June 9 - Two trains collide at Esholt Junction inWest Yorkshire ,England , on what is now theWharfedale Line . Five passengers are killed, twenty-six more and three crew are injured. The cause was unsafe procedures and a signal obscured by vegetation.*
June 17 -Brienz Rothorn Bahn , inSwitzerland , opens.July events
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July 18 - ThePine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as thePine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).September events
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September 12 -Western Maryland Railroad 's line fromHagerstown, Maryland , over the C&O Canal and thePotomac River toCherry Run, West Virginia , opens. [cite journal| journal=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin| author=Hicks, W. Raymond| title=The Cumberland Extension - Western Maryland Railroad Company| pages=p 26| month=April| year=1970| issue=122 ]November events
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November 27 - TheAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the "California Limited "passenger train betweenChicago, Illinois , andLos Angeles, California , with the first departure from Chicago.December events
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December 1 - The first "California Limited "passenger train arrives inChicago, Illinois , after a round trip toLos Angeles, California .
*December 30 -Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville,Ontario ; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12 2005 ) [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history] . RetrievedDecember 27 2005 .]Unknown date events
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Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for theHeisler locomotive .
* TheRichmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership.
*Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed aschief mechanical engineer of theGreat Western Railway of Brazil .
*Michigan-Peninsular Car Company , later to become part ofAmerican Car and Foundry , is founded inDetroit, Michigan .
* The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become theLake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad , is founded.Births
Deaths
July deaths
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July 24 - Thomas Nickerson, president of theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874 –1880 (b.1810 ).eptember deaths
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September 7 -Joseph R. Anderson , owner of Americansteam locomotive manufacturing companyTredegar Iron Works (b.1813 ).December deaths
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December 2 -Jay Gould , American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of theErie Railroad (b.1836 ).Unknown date deaths
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Isaac Dripps , mechanical engineer for theCamden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the "John Bull" (b.1810 ).References
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1957 ), " [http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877-1996] ". RetrievedJuly 18 2005 .
* (January 16 2005 ), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/managers.htm Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers] ". RetrievedFebruary 10 2005 .
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* " [http://www.i2k.com/~dpierce/LSI/history.html A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad] ". RetrievedMay 9 2005 .
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