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EVENTS

February events

2005 .

April events

April 1 - The Old Colony Railroad leases the Boston And Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years.

June events

June 15 - The first train to Casper, Wyoming , operating on the Chicago And North Western Railway , arrives.

September events

September 10 - The Chicago, Milwaukee, And St. Paul Railroad (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first Passenger Train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, Illinois , on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities .¹

September 18 - The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway 's Chaudiere Extension departs for Chaudiere Falls , Ontario (near Ottawa ).

Unknown date events

Spring - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway begins through service between Kansas City, Kansas , and Chicago, Illinois , over the railroad's newly completed line.

The Canadian Pacific acquires control of the Soo Line , renaming it to the ''Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad''.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

April deaths

April 19 - Thomas Crampton , English Steam Locomotive builder (b. 1816 ).

June deaths

June 14 - Charles Crocker , a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1822 ).

REFERENCES

Casper Star-Tribune (, 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

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

( 2005 .