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EVENTS

January events

January - Unable to keep his promises to shareholders, Robert Ralph Young suspends dividends on New York Central stock.

January 1 - the Chicago And North Western Railway acquires the Litchfield And Madison Railroad .

February events

2006 .

June events

June 22 - The Chicago Transit Authority opens the Congress Expressway rapid transit line, pioneering the first use of rail rapid transit and a multi-lane automobile expressway in the same grade-separated right-of-way. The route connects with the Milwaukee-Dearborn-Congress Subway at the Chicago River and extends west to Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park .

July events

July - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD24 .

July 7 - The Hudson And Manhattan Railroad reintroduces women-only cars on the railroad's commuter trains in New York City .

July 25 - Pacific Great Eastern Railway completes construction of the line to Fort St. John, British Columbia .

August events

August 9 - The '' Moccasin '', the longest running Named Passenger Train in Canada thus far, is discontinued.

September events

September - train derails, killing 17.

October events

October - After building only 59 examples of the type, Fairbanks-Morse and Canadian Locomotive Company discontinue construction of the H-16-66 model Train Master Diesel Locomotive .

October 1 - Northern Ireland 's Ulster Transport Authority and the Republic Of Ireland 's Córas Iompair Éireann take over from the Great Northern Railway Board in running the remaining cross-border route ( Dublin – Belfast ) of the Irish Railway System . The GNR assets are split between the two state companies.

Unknown date events

Ernest S. Marsh succeeds Fred Gurley as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January deaths

January 25 - Robert Ralph Young , financier and controlling stockholder of the New York Central commits suicide after suspending company dividends (b. 1897 )

REFERENCES

Klapouchy, B. ( 2005 .

( 2005 and August 9 2005 .