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EVENTS

April events

Union Pacific Railroad 's M-10002 Streamliner trainset re-enters revenue service to equip the connection between Seattle, Washington , and Portland, Oregon .

May events

May 1 The last pre-war Streamliner , Illinois Central ’s refurbished “Panama Limited” is put into service.

July events

July 5 The Multiple Unit passenger trainsets used by the Denver And Rio Grande Western Railroad on the '' Prospector '' between Denver, Colorado , and Salt Lake City, Utah , are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard Locomotive s and unpowered Passenger Cars .

July 11 A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift , in present day Pakistan , is destroyed by a Flash Flood ; the line has not been rebuilt.

August events

August 8 The ''Mumbai Rajdhani'' Passenger Train , one of many '' Rajdhani Express '' trains, is inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai , India .

September events

September 8 "Unspiking" ceremony at Promontory Summit as the original Central Pacific / Union Pacific line is torn up. The rails will be re-laid in Navy Yards throughout the United States .

December events

2005 .

Unknown date events

Samuel Hopkins Adams publishes his novel '' The Harvey Girls '' commemorating the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that served passengers of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

D'Alton Cory Coleman succeeds Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

REFERENCES

Indian Railways Fan Club, '' IR History: Part - III (1900 - 1947) ''. Retrieved July 7 2005 .