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EVENTS

January events

January 20 - The Grand Trunk Western Railroad opens a passenger depot in Lansing, Michigan .

April events

April 7 - Apalachicola Northern Railroad , later to become AN Railway , is chartered.

May events

May 13 - The Fremont, Elkhorn And Missouri Valley Railroad (later to become part of Chicago And North Western Railway ) begins Passenger Train service to Casper, Wyoming . {Link without Title}

May 25 - The Lackawanna And Wyoming Valley Railroad opens, becoming the first railroad in the United States to use an electrified Third Rail to power its trains.

July events

July 13 - Danbury Union Station in Danbury, Connecticut , on the New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad , opens.

July 27 - Construction begins on the Baghdad Railway with the 200 Km segment between Konya and Bulgurlu in the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey ).

August events

August - , 84 killed

September events

Passenger Train derails on a trestle in Danville; 11 people are killed.

October events

October - Experimental electric trains, build by AEG and Siemens & Halske, reach 210.2 Km/h (130.6 Mph ) between Marienfelde and Zossen in Germany .

November events

November 9 - The 2 Ft 6 In (762 Mm ) Gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway opens in India .

Unknown date events

Southern Pacific Railroad gains 50% control of the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, California .

The provisions of the US Railroad Safety Appliance Act , enacted in 1893 , are extended to include all railroad cars whether or not the cars themselves are used in interchange service.

E. H. Harriman becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad .

George Whale succeeds Francis William Webb as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway .

BIRTHS

April births

April 10 - Edward T. Reidy , last president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1957-1968.

DEATHS

March deaths

March 29 - Gustavus Franklin Swift , founder of Swift And Company which pioneered the use of Refrigerator Car s in late 19th Century America (b. 1839 )

July deaths

July 27 - Frederick J. Kimball , American Civil Engineer who was instrumental in the formation of Norfolk And Western (b. 1844 ).

Unknown date deaths

J. Elfreth Watkins , Railroad Civil Engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution 's railroad artifacts including '' John Bull ''.

REFERENCES

Casper Star-Tribune (, 2005 .

Gulder, Bill, '' A Brief History of the Danbury Railway Museum ''. Retrieved July 12 2005 .

Northern Railways of India, '' Kalka-Shimla Railway ''. Retrieved November 8 2005 .

( 2005 .

'' Siemens experimental high-speed electric train ''