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EVENTS

19th century

1868 – The Kalamazoo And Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan .

20th century

1901 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart And Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas .

1906 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.

1912 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia .

1986 – The Vancouver SkyTrain begins operations between Vancouver 's waterfront and New Westminster .

21st century

2005 – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener , formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad , as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas-Mexican Railway divisions.

BIRTHS

1810 – Henry Keyes , president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1869 – 1870 (d. 1870 ).

1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy , president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1863 - 1868 (d. 1891 ).

1900 – C.L. Dellums , cofounder of the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters (d. 1989 )

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Beck, Wayne ( 2005 .

'' History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company ''. Retrieved August 6 2005 .

( 2005 .