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EVENTS
November events
November 15
- The "golden spike" is driven and construction of the
San Diego And Arizona Railway
is completed at a cost of
$
18 million.
December events
December 1
- The first
Passenger Train
of the
San Diego & Arizona Railway
"arrives" in
San Diego
from
El Centro, California
, for the official line opening ceremony.
Unknown date events
Ralph Budd
becomes president of the
Great Northern Railway
and becomes the youngest (40) president of any
American
railroad to date.
The
Federal Trade Commission
orders
Armour & Co.
to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary,
Fruit Growers Express
(FGE), for anti-trust reasons.
BIRTHS
DEATHS
August deaths
August 3
-
Samuel W. Fordyce
, president of
St. Louis, Arkansas And Texas Railway
1886
-
1889
,
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
1890
-
1898
,
Kansas City Southern Railway
1900
(b.
1840
).
August 11
-
Andrew Carnegie
,
Steel
magnate and owner of
Pittsburgh Locomotive And Car Works
(b.
1835
).
October deaths
October 10
-
Anatole Mallet
, inventor of the
Mallet Locomotive
type (b.
1837
).
REFERENCES
1
Fordyce, Jim (
2005
.
2
Kansas City Southern Historical Society, ''
The Kansas City Southern Lines
''. Retrieved
August 15
2005
.
(
2005
.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (
2005
.