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EVENTS

March events

March 1 - Japan 's Mito Railway is consolidated into the Japanese National Railways .

April events

April 17 - Canada Atlantic Railway leases the Central Counties Railway , which connected Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury, Ontario .¹

May events

May 20 - The last Broad Gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London 's Paddington Station .

June events

June 6 - Chicago’s "El" opens to traffic.

June 7 - Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans . The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court 's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896 .

June 17 - Brienz Rothorn Bahn , in Switzerland , opens.

July events

July 18 - The Pine Bluff, Monroe And New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff And Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).

September events

September 12 - Western Maryland Railroad 's line from Hagerstown, Maryland , over the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia , opens.²

November events

November 27 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the '' California Limited '' Passenger Train between Chicago, Illinois , and Los Angeles, California , with the first departure from Chicago.

December events

December 1 - The first '' California Limited '' Passenger Train arrives in Chicago, Illinois , after a round trip to Los Angeles, California .

2005 .

Unknown date events

Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler Locomotive .

The Richmond And Danville Railroad enters receivership.

Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway Of Brazil .

Michigan-Peninsular Car Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in Detroit, Michigan .

The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior And Ishpeming Railroad , is founded.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

July deaths

July 24 - Thomas Nickerson , president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1874 – 1880 (b. 1810 ).

September deaths

September 7 - Joseph R. Anderson , owner of American Steam Locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813 ).

December deaths

December 2 - Jay Gould , American financier who, with Jim Fisk , took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836 ).

Unknown date deaths

Isaac Dripps , mechanical engineer for the Camden And Amboy Railroad who assembled the '' John Bull '' (b. 1810 ).

REFERENCES

Beck, Wayne ( 2005 .

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³

'' A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad ''. Retrieved May 9 2005 .