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EVENTS

January events

2005 .

January 10 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).

March events

March 16 - Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Germany opens its Szczecin – Pasewalk and Anklam –Pasewalk– Prenzlau – Angermünde lines.

May events

2005 .

September events

September - The Kansas Pacific Railway begins construction in Kansas , building westward from Kansas City toward Colorado .

October events

October 5 - The Brooklyn, Bath And Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York ; this is now the oldest Right-of-way on the New York City Subway , the largest Rapid Transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

November events

November 9 - '' Gov. Stanford '', Central Pacific Railroad 's first locomotive, enters service in California .¹

December events

December 2 - Union Pacific Railroad holds Groundbreaking ceremonies in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad at Omaha, Nebraska , but the first rails aren't laid for another year.

Unknown date events

2005 .

Jackson And Sharp Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in Wilmington, Delaware .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

November deaths

November 2 - Theodore Judah , American Engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (b. 1826 ).

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