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EVENTS

January events

January 30 - The Canadian National Railway (CN) absorbs the Grand Trunk Railway and spins off the portion of the Grand Trunk within the United States to form the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW); CN operates GTW as a subsidiary railroad.

March events

2006 .

July events

July 15 - United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad .

July 18 - Fruit Growers Express (FGE) and the Great Northern Railway form the Western Fruit Express (WFE) in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the west.

September events

September 27 - Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad 's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming ), a Passenger Train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming 's history. {Link without Title}

Unknown date events

The Interstate Commerce Commission allows the Southern Pacific Railroad 's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that the control is in the public's interest.

George Hughes succeeds Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway

The city of Glasgow , Scotland takes over operations of the Glasgow Subway .

The Munising, Marquette And South Eastern Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway merge to form the Lake Superior And Ishpeming Railroad .

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

Robert R. Dowty , construction foreman for the ''Jupiter'' and ''119'' Steam Locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (d. 2004 ).

Margaret Landry Moore , "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern 's '' Southern Belle '' Passenger Train s (d. 2005 ). {Link without Title}

Frank Turpin , CEO of Alaska Railroad , 1985 – 1993 (d. 2005 ). {Link without Title}

DEATHS

April deaths

April 10 - Stuyvesant Fish , president of the Illinois Central 1887 – 1907 (b. 1851 ).

May deaths

May 16 - George Jay Gould I , eldest son of Jay Gould , president of the Denver And Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (b. 1864 ).

December deaths

December 5 - Sir William Mackenzie , part owner of Toronto Street Railway , builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (b. 1849 ).

December 10 - Thomas George Shaughnessy , president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1899 - 1918 (b. 1853 ).

REFERENCES

Casper Star-Tribune ( 2005

Loy, Wesley, Anchorage Daily News ( 2005 .

'' A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad ''. Retrieved May 9 2005 .

Trains News Wire ( 2005 .