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EVENTS

February events

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March events

March 8 - The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake , bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline.

March 20 - The Southern Pacific Railroad completes the Coast Line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA .

May events

May 9 - Great Western Railway locomotive number 3440, '' City Of Truro '', becomes the first Steam Locomotive in Europe to travel at speeds over 100 Mph (160 Km/h ) when it hauls the ''Ocean Mails'' special from Plymouth to London Paddington .

July events

July 21 - The Trans-Siberian Railway is completed.

August events

August 15 - The Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian Atlantic Railway sign an agreement that will place the Canadian Atlantic under Grand Trunk's control.

September events

September 12 - Indianapolis Traction Terminal opens, the largest interurban terminal in the world.

October events

October 25 - The first 200 Km (124 Mile s) section of the Baghdad Railway opens.

October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens; the system is now the largest in the United States , and one of the largest in the world.

Unknown date events

The Tidewater Railway is chartered in Virginia .

American Locomotive Company purchases the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal , Canada , which soon became Montreal Locomotive Works .

The United States Government purchases the Panama Railway from the French canal company ''Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique''.

Lucius E. Johnson succeeds Frederick J. Kimball as president of the Norfolk And Western Railroad .

American Car And Foundry builds the first all- Steel Passenger Car in the world; the car is delivered to the Interborough Rapid Transit system of New York City as the first car in an order of 300.

American Car And Foundry acquires Southern Car And Foundry of Memphis, Tennessee .

BIRTHS

July births

July 30 - Buck Crump , president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1955 - 1964 and 1966 (d. 1989 ).

DEATHS

October deaths

October 4 - Henry C. Payne , president of Milwaukee And Northern Railroad , Milwaukee Electric Railway And Light Company and the Milwaukee And Cream City Traction Company , and receiver for Northern Pacific Railway in 1893 (b. 1843 ).

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Trains of Turkey ( 2005 .