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EVENTS

January events

January 10 - The California Pacific Railroad absorbs the Sacramento And San Francisco Rail Road Company and the San Francisco And Marysville Rail Road Company .

February events

2006 .

February 9 - The Colorado And Clear Creek Railroad , predecessor to the Colorado Central Railroad , is chartered.

February 15 - The Chicago And North Western Railway and Galena And Chicago Union Railroad merge.

April events

April - The funeral train for Abraham Lincoln travels from Washington, DC to Illinois .

May events

May 25 - The first Steel rails are rolled at a foundry in Chicago from Bessemer Steel made in Blast Furnace s in Wyandotte, Michigan .Barnett, Leroy "Making America's First Steel in Wyandotte", Michigan History, Vol. 88 No. 4 July/August 2004

June events

is amongst the survivors.

August events

2005 .

September events

September 1 - The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest - Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania .

September 13 - Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond And Danville Railroad .

2005 .

Unknown date events

The Union Pacific Railway, later to become the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and not to be confused with the Union Pacific Railroad , begins operations.

A group of businessmen in San Francisco, California , led by Timothy Guy Phelps , found the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California .

Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central .

The Canadian Engine And Machinery Company , predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company , is founded from the assets of the bankrupt Kingston Locomotive Works .

Missouri Car And Foundry Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in St. Louis, Missouri .

BIRTHS

March births

March 2 - Frederick Methvan Whyte , Mechanical Engineer for the New York Central Railroad , creator of Whyte Notation for the classification of Steam Locomotive s (d. 1941 ).¹

October births

October 9 - George Hughes , Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire And Yorkshire Railway 1904 – 1922 , the London And North Western Railway 1922 – 1923 and the London, Midland And Scottish Railway 1925 – 1931 (d. 1945 ).

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

William T. James , American inventor of the Link Motion and Spark Arrester (b. 1786 ).

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