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EVENTS

March events

March 1 - Control of American railroads is returned to private ownership and administration with the disbandment of the USRA .

March 18 - Fruit Growers Express (FGE) is incorporated.

June events

, 2005 .

November events

November - H.P.M. Beames succeeds Charles Bowen-Cooke as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway .

2005 .

Unknown date events

William Sproule succeeds Julius Krutschnitt as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad . This is Sproule's second term as president.

BIRTHS

April births

2005 .

DEATHS

July deaths

July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt , heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1849).

November deaths

2005 .

Unknown date deaths

Charles Bowen-Cooke , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway 1909-1920 (b. 1859).

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