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EVENTS

February events

February 11 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway , is chartered in Kansas .

March events

2006 .

May events

May 2 Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash in Cornwall , England , opened by Prince Albert

May 4 - Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England .

June events

June 2 - the organization that is to become the Chicago And North Western Railway purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul And Fond Du Lac Railroad .

June 7 - the Chicago And North Western Railway is chartered.

August events

August - Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad .

December events

2005

BIRTHS

January births

January 11 - Charles Bowen-Cooke , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway 1909 – 1920 (d. 1920 ).

April births

April 11 - Stuart R. Knott , president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 - 1905 (d. 1943 ).

DEATHS

September deaths

September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , founder of Great Western Railway , dies (b. 1806 ).

October deaths

October 12 - Robert Stephenson , English Steam Locomotive builder (b. 1803 ).

REFERENCES

Baker Library Historical Collections, '' Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896 ''. Retrieved May 10 2005 .

The Cosmopolitan (February 2005 .

'' Erie Railroad presidents ''. Retrieved March 15 2005 .

Kansas City Southern Historical Society, '' The Kansas City Southern Lines ''. Retrieved August 15 2005 .

Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.