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EVENTS

February events

February 4 - The Interstate Commerce Act in the United States is signed into law, creating the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the prices for hauling freight on American railroads.

March events

	Author	Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society
	Title	This Month in Railroad History: March
	Url	http://avenueorg/nrhs/histmarhtm
	Accessdate	March 27
	Accessyear	2006

April events

is driven in a ceremony in Indian Territory connecting the Kansas and Texas branches of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad . The town of Purcell, Oklahoma , rises at the location, named in honor of ATSF railroad director Edward Benton (E.B.) Purcell , of Manhattan, Kansas .

July events

July 13

--- The second Tay Rail Bridge across the Firth Of Tay in Scotland opens.

--- The Chateaugay Railway , a predecessor of the Delaware And Hudson Railway , is incorporated.

July 20 - The Youngstown, Lawrence And Pittsburg Railroad and the Ashtabula, Niles And Youngstown Railroad , both in Ohio , are merged to form the Pittsburg, Youngstown And Ashtabula Railroad (a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary).

October events

October 11

--- Cotton Belt Railroad predecessor Paragould And Buffalo Island Railway , in Arkansas , is incorporated.

--- The New York and Northern Railway (a predecessor name for the New York And Putnam Railroad ) emerges from reorganization after Foreclosure the previous July.

November events

November 10 - Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's Locomotive to heat the Passenger Car s instead of Coal or Wood stoves in each car.

December events

December 31 - Spokane International Railroad begins operations.

Unknown date events

Reuben Wells is appointed as shop superintendent of American Steam Locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive And Machine Works .

Stuyvesant Fish becomes president of the Illinois Central .

Colorado Midland completes construction of the Hagerman Tunnel .

BIRTHS

March births

March 9 - Nathaniel Lamson Howard , president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925-1929 (d. 1949 ).

September births

September 5 - Charles Fairburn , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland And Scottish Railway 1944 – 1945 (d. 1945 ).

DEATHS

April deaths

2006 .

April 20 - Horatio G. Brooks , founder of Brooks Locomotive Works (b. 1828 ).

July deaths

July 4 - Anson P. Morrill , president of Maine Central Railroad 1864-1866 and 1873-1875 (b. 1803).

August deaths

August 14 - Aaron Augustus Sargent , American Journalist , Lawyer and Politician ; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (b. 1827 )

REFERENCES

Beck, Wayne ( 2005 .

Bridge Line Historical Society ( 2004 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

( 2005 .

Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board, '' STW historical figures / Horatio Brooks ''. Retrieved February 9 2005 .