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EVENTS

February events

2006 .

May events

May - James J. Hill forms the St. Paul, Minneapolis And Manitoba Railway from the assets of the bankrupt St. Paul And Pacific .

May 31 - The first Electric Railway opens at the Berlin Trades Exposition .

June events

June 1 - Great Britain 's Queen Victoria opens the Tay Rail Bridge , at the time the longest bridge in the world, across the Firth Of Tay in Scotland .

July events

July 4 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches Las Vegas, New Mexico .Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

December events

collapses in a violent storm while a Passenger Train is crossing it. 75 lives are lost. William Topaz McGonagall produces his epic poem '' The Tay Bridge Disaster '' to commemorate the event.

Unknown date events

Southern Pacific Railroad engineers experiment with the first oil-fired Steam Locomotives .

Ensign Manufacturing Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in Huntington, West Virginia .

BIRTHS

March births

March 6 - Patrick H. Joyce , president Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, is born (d. 1946 ).

April births

April 24 - Oris Paxton Van Sweringen , American Financier who, with his brother Mantis , controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1936 ).

Unknown date births

Ralph Budd , president of the Great Northern Railway 1919 – 1932 and Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad 1932 – 1949 (d. 1962 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

( 2005 .

President and Fellows of Harvard College ( 2005 .

'' Today in Science History: May 31 ''. Retrieved May 27 , 2005 .