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EVENTS

January events

January 1 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint And Pere Marquette Railway Company , Detriot, Lansing And Northern Railroad and Chicago And West Michigan Railroad .

February events

2006 .

March events

2006 .

March 30 - The Cape Breton Electric Tramway And Power Company in Nova Scotia , Canada , is incorporated.¹

March 30 - The Newark, Somerset And Straitsville Railroad is reorganized as the Ohio Midland Railroad .²

April events

April 24 - Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi , and earns a spot in American folklore.

April 26 - A defective Chimney on a house in Hull starts the Great Hull-Ottawa Fire (pictured); among the items destroyed are nearly 200 freight cars and the Canadian Pacific Railway Station and freight house. The resulting shortage of Lumber for reconstruction forces Canada Atlantic Railway to temporarily halt production on new Railroad Car s at the company shops in Ottawa .³

May events

May - The Santa Fe And San Joaquin Valley Railway begins operations between Bakersfield and San Francisco, California .Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

July events

July 19 - The first section of the Paris Métro opens.

August events

August 14 - Charles Hayes succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death.

2005 .

September events

September 22 - Harry C. Grant and Joshua Lionel Cowen file incorporation papers in New York creating Lionel Trains .

Unknown date events

The Pittsburgh, Shenango And Lake Erie Railroad is renamed Bessemer And Lake Erie Railroad .

The Boston And Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary railroad of the New York Central .

Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway gains control of Colorado Midland and begins operating it as a Subsidiary railroad.

BIRTHS

January births

January 3 - C.L. Dellums , cofounder of the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters (d. 1989 )

DEATHS

August deaths

August 13 - Collis P. Huntington , a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1821 )

Unknown date deaths

2005 .

Cyrus K. Holliday , cofounder of Topeka, Kansas , and first president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad (b. 1826 ).⁴

Robert S. Hughes , president of Rogers Locomotive Company 1893 – 1900 .

Henry Villard , president of Northern Pacific Railroad (b. 1835 ).

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