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EVENTS

January events

January 20 - The Elizabeth City And Norfolk Railroad , which later became the original Norfolk Southern Railroad , is chartered to build a railroad line between Norfolk, Virginia , and Elizabeth City, North Carolina .

February events

February 24 - Delaware And Hudson Canal Company leases the Albany And Susquehanna Railroad , which extended from Albany to Binghamton, New York .

March events

2006 .

March - Construction on the Kansas Pacific reaches Kit Carson, Colorado .

June events

June - The Denver Pacific Railway completes construction of its mainline between Denver, Colorado , and Cheyenne, Wyoming .

July events

July 24 - The first Railroad Car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City .

August events

August - Construction crews on the Kansas Pacific working eastward from Denver and westward from Kansas City meet at Strasburg, Colorado .

August - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Topeka , reaches Emporia, Kansas .

August 2 - The Texas legislature approves the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT) charter, which was originally granted by Kansas , allowing the MKT to build into the state.

August 15 - Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railroad , building westward from Kansas , reaches Denver, Colorado .

September events

September 24 - Ginery Twichell succeeds Henry Keyes as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

Unknown date events

The Southern Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad operations are merged under the Southern Pacific name.

BIRTHS

July births

July 29 - Henry Fowler , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909 – 1923 and of the London, Midland And Scottish Railway 1925 – 1931 (d. 1938 ).

DEATHS

December deaths

December - Byron Kilbourn , president of Milwaukee And Mississippi Railroad 1849-1852 (b. 1801).

Unknown date deaths

George S. Griggs , pioneering master mechanic of American Steam Locomotives (b. 1805 ).

REFERENCES

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

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

Scripophily.com, '' Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1886 ''. Retrieved August 2 2005 .

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