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EVENTS

January events

January - General Electric introduces the GE U30C .

March events

2006 .

April events

April 1 - The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) begins work.

April 20 - The Interstate Commerce Commission grants its initial approval of the proposed CNW / CGW merger.¹

July events

July 19 - The New York City Subway introduces its first Air Conditioned Passenger Car .

July 25 - Construction begins in San Francisco, California , on the Market Street Subway .

October events

October 2 - Canadian Pacific Railway removes the Diamond Crossing at Bedell, Ontario , the junction of the railway's Winchester and Prescott subdivisions.

October 28 - Canadian Pacific Railway moves the last of its equipment out of its Ottawa West Yard to the new Walkley Yard .

September events

September 30 - The Monon Railroad ceases all Passenger Train operations.

December events

December 3 - The New York Central 's 20th Century Limited is discontinued just before the railroad's merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central .

December 29 - The first Steam Locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay Locomotive .

Unknown date events

The Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line railroads merge to form the Seaboard Coast Line railroad..

Southern Pacific Railroad opens the longest stretch of new railroad construction in a quarter century as the first trains roll over the Palmdale Cutoff through Cajon Pass .

The Central Railroad Of New Jersey declares bankruptcy.

General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP45 .

D. William Brosnan is succeeded by W. Graham Claytor as president of the Southern Railway .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

2006 .

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( and October 28 2005 .

Illinois Railway Museum ( 2005 .

National Transportation Safety Board ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

'' Norfolk Southern Railway ''. Retrieved February 22 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .