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EVENTS

January events

2006 .

February events

February 3 - The Seney Syndicate met at Seney's New York bank and organized the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road ).

February 17 - The first train operates between Norwood, Ohio , and Lebanon, Ohio , on the Cincinnati Northern Railway .

March events

March 8 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches Deming, New Mexico .

April events

April 13 - The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road ) purchases the Buffalo, Cleveland & Chicago Railway

April 14 - The Oregon Short Line Railroad is established to build a rail connection between Granger, Wyoming , and Huntington, Oregon .

May events

May 19 - Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach El Paso, Texas .

May 28 - Albert Bowman Rogers on his birthday discovers the pass through the Rocky Mountains that would bear his name, Rogers Pass .

June events

June 9 - The Canada Central Railway is merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway .

June 11 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad connects to El Paso, Texas .

July events

July 26 - Construction crews on the Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad 's Alpine Tunnel, in Colorado , break through to connect both ends of the Tunnel .

August events

August 22 - The East Tennessee And Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC) commences operation over a 14.1-mile (2.25-kilometer) run through the Appalachian Mountains .

August 26 - The first train operates over the Red River Bridge into Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada .

Unknown date events

E.W. Clark And Company , a private banking firm in Philadelphia , purchases the Atlantic, Mississippi And Ohio Railroad (a predecessor of the Norfolk & Western ) at a foreclosure auction.

The Richmond And Danville Railroad leases the Atlanta And Charlotte Air Line Railway .

Henry Villard becomes president of the Northern Pacific Railroad .

The French ''Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique'' purchased controlling interest in the Panama Railway Company.

John Souther retires from the Steam Locomotive manufacturing company that he founded, Globe Locomotive Works .

Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway begins.

BIRTHS

July births

July 8 - Mantis James Van Sweringen , American Financier who, with his brother Oris , controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1935 ).

October births

October 30 - Charles E. Johnston , president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928 - 1938 (d. 1951 ).

Unknown date births

Martin W. Clement , president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1935 – 1948 (d. 1966 ).

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

William S. Hudson , superintendent of American Steam Locomotive manufacturing firm Rogers, Ketchum And Grosvenor (b. 1810 ).

REFERENCES

Churcher, Colin (, 2005 .

Glenbow Museum (, 2005 .

Kansas City Southern Historical Society, '' The Kansas City Southern Lines ''. Retrieved August 15 2005 .

Newcomb, Kenneth W., '' The Makers of the Mold ''. Retrieved February 15 2005 .

President and Fellows of Harvard College ( 2005 .

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

White, John H., Jr. ( Spring 1986 ), America's most noteworthy railroaders, ''Railroad History'', Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.