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Events
19th century
* 1842 – The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Werneth in northwest England.
20th century
* 1917 – New York City Subway's IRT White Plains Road Line extension from 180th Street-Bronx Park to Nereid Avenue-238th Street opens.
* 1924 – American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry.
* 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island) ceases operations.
21st century
* 2005 – Kawasaki Rail Car is awarded a $499 million order to build 340 new commuter coaches and power cars for PATH in New York and New Jersey; the order is part of a plan to completely replace PATH's entire fleet of cars.
Births
Deaths
* 1913 – J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (b. 1837).
* 1949 – Grant Stauffer, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1948-1949, dies.
References
* (July 2005), "City Rail briefs", "Trains Magazine", p. 29.
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