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EVENTS

February events

2006 .

February 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad are combined under a single holding company, the Southern Pacific Company.

April events

April 1 - The Southern Pacific Railroad takes over operations of the Central Pacific Railroad .

April 6 - The Meriden And Cromwell Railroad , a Connecticut predecessor of the New Haven Railroad , opens.¹

June events

June - John J. Hagerman gains control of Colorado Midland .

July events

July 19 - The Zanesville And Ohio River Railway enters receivership.

July 20 - The Hull And Barnsley Railway , a consituent of the London And North Eastern Railway , opens.

November events

November 7 - The last Spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway is driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia , Canada .

November 9 - The last Spike is driven on the California Southern Railroad between Barstow and San Bernardino , completing the connection to the Atlantic And Pacific Railroad .

Unknown date events

Cornelius Vanderbilt II is promoted to president of the New York Central system.

The California Southern Railway , later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway , completes the connection between San Bernardino and Barstow, California .

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

Richard M. Dilworth , General Motors Electro-Motive Division chief engineer credited with developing the Diesel-electric locomotive concept in the 1930s (d. 1968 ).²

DEATHS

July deaths

July 31 - Robert F. Fairlie , Scottish Steam Locomotive builder (b. 1831).

December deaths

2005 .

December 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt , son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1821).

Unknown date deaths

John B. Jervis , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Mohawk And Hudson Railroad who pioneered the use of the leading truck on Steam Locomotive s (b. 1795).

REFERENCES

Dodge, Richard V.; San Diego Railroad Museum ( 2005 .

'' Robert Francis Fairlie ''. Retrieved February 9 2005 .

( 2005 .

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