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EVENTS

January events

January 15 - The final spike is driven on the Transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia .

May events

May 22 - In the Quintinshill Rail Crash , four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill , Gretna Green , Scotland ; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.

September events

; the train is pulled by CP 4-6-2 number 2213.

October events

October 1 - Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway introduces the '' Navajo '' Passenger Train in San Francisco - Los Angeles - Chicago service as a replacement for the '' Tourist Flyer ''.

December events

December 16 - William Kissam Vanderbilt is found to be in violation of antitrust laws in the United States because the New York Central owns a controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road , both of which Vanderbilt owned.

BIRTHS

December births

December 10 - William N. Deramus III , president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1949-1957, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1957-1961, Kansas City Southern Railway 1961-1973, is born (d. 1989).

Unknown date births

Carl Fallberg , cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis (d. 1996).

DEATHS

May deaths

May 20 - Charles Francis Adams, Jr. , president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1884 – 1890 (b. 1835 ).

September deaths

September 11 - William Cornelius Van Horne , oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway , youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1843 ).

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Soylent Communications ( 2005 .