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EVENTS

January events

January 15 - VIA Rail discontinues '' Super Continental '' service and shifts '' The Canadian '' from its Canadian Pacific Railway to a Canadian National Railway route between Toronto and Vancouver , ending service to many cities and towns along the CP line, including Calgary and Regina .

May events

May 28 - An Alaska Railroad train derails 19 Tank Car s near Dunbar . Approximately 170,000 Gallon s of Diesel and Jet Fuel are spilled; the cleanup efforts last nearly three Week s.

December events

December 1 - Construction crews on the Channel Tunnel from both England and France break through the last amount of rock separating the two tunnels, forming the first land link between the two countries.

Unknown date events

David L. Gunn steps down from leadership of the New York City Transit Authority .

Robert J. Ritchie succeeds William Stinson as president of Canadian Pacific Railway .

The Gateway Western Railway begins operations over former Chicago And Alton Railroad tracks between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri .

VIA Rail Canada suspends operation of the '' Super Continental '' Passenger Train for a second and final time.

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Combs, John (, 2005 .

(February 2002 ), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, ''Trains Magazine'', p. 17.