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EVENTS

February events

February 9 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico .

2006 .

March events

March 20 - The first Southern Pacific Railroad train reaches Tucson, Arizona .

March 20 - The Miami Valley Railway is sold from receivership to the Toledo, Delphos And Burlington railway.

April events

April 15 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico .

June events

June 8 - The Miami Valley Railway is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway .

July events

July 2 - The first revenue trains reach Leadville, Colorado , on the Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad .

July 20 - Construction on the Denver And Rio Grande Railroad reaches Leadville, Colorado .

October events

October 1 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches San Marcial, New Mexico .

Unknown date events

Summer - The Atlantic And Pacific Railroad , later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , begins construction west of Albuquerque, New Mexico .

Eugene V. Debs becomes the Grand Secretary of American labor organization Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen .

The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond And Danville Railroad itself couldn't.

Alonzo C. Mather forms the Mather Stock Car Company to build Stock Car s of his own design.

The Peninsular Car Company delivers the first Refrigerator Car s to Swift And Company , forming the basis of Swift Refrigerator Line .

The Merchants Despatch enters the refrigerated transit business.

Mexican President General Manuel González grants a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen to build the Chihuahua Al Pacífico

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January deaths

January 1 - Morris Ketchum , partner in Rogers, Ketchum And Grosvenor , director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796 ).

REFERENCES

'' Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad ''. Retrieved July 18 2005 .

'' Railroad History Timeline 1880 ''. Retrieved March 23 2005 .

Reitwiesner, William Addams, '' The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne ''. Retrieved October 11 2005 .

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