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EVENTS

February events

February 22 - Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new Steam Locomotive .

March events

March 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky .

March - Central Pacific Railroad 's '' El Gobernador '', at the time the largest Locomotive in the world, enters service.¹

June events

, 2005 .

July events

July 23 - The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway .

October events

October - John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad .

November events

November 28 - Northern Pacific Railroad establishes the town of Pasco, Washington , at the Junction of its lines between Seattle , Tacoma , Spokane , and Portland, Oregon .

Unknown date events

Summer - The Atlantic And Pacific Railroad , later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway , completes its connection between Needles and Mojave, California .

The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch (SFRD) is established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

The Smithsonian Institution acquires the '' John Bull '' from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad .

BIRTHS

July births

July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt , heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970 ).

December births

December 9 - Ernest Lemon , Chief Mechanical Engineer ( 1931 – 1932 ) and later Vice President for the London, Midland And Scottish Railway (d. 1954 ).

DEATHS

May deaths

May 17 - George Muirson Totten , chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808 ).

September deaths

September 26 - John W. Garrett , president of the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad 1858 – (b. 1820 ).

REFERENCES

'' Biography of John Work Garrett ''. Retrieved March 2 2005 .

HistoryLink (2005), '' This week in state and local history ''. Retrieved November 28 2005 .

'' Erie Railroad presidents ''. Retrieved March 15 2005 .

'' George Muirson Totten ''. Retrieved February 9 2005

Morris, J. C. ( 2005 .

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

Soylent Communications ( 2005 .

White, John H, Jr. ( Spring 1986 ), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, ''Railroad History'', 154, p. 9-15.