January 3 in rail transport
- January 3 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1868 – The Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan.[cite web| url=http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html| title=History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company| accessdate=2005-08-06| ] ] 20th century
* 1901 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas. [cite journal| author=Beck, Wayne| date=1957| journal=Coton Belt News| url=http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html| title=The History of the St. Louis Soutwestern Railway| accessdate=2005-08-06 ]
* 1906 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.
* 1912 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia.[cite web| date=April 3 2005| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| accessdate=2005-08-06| ] ]
* 1986 – The Vancouver SkyTrain begins operations between Vancouver's waterfront and New Westminster. 21st century
* 2003 – A passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad, crashes into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India, killing 18 people. See: Ghatnandur train crash.
* 2005 – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener, formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad, as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas Mexican Railway divisions.
Births
* 1810 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).
* 1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-1868 (d. 1891).
* 1900 – C.L. Dellums, cofounder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (d. 1989)
Deaths
References
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