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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

March events

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July events

July 11 - The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.

July 28 - Compagnie Internationale Des Wagons-Lits announces that due to the June 28 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria at Sarajevo , the Orient Express will terminate in Bucharest and not go on to Constantinople .

August events

August 19 - Passenger Train s of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway begin using the Grand Trunk Railway 's Central Station in Toronto .

October events

October 13 - The Algoma Central And Hudson Bay Railway , building northward from Sault Ste. Marie , opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario .

Unknown date events

The New York Central And Hudson River Railroad changes its official name to simply New York Central

The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad ) enters receivership.

The United States government purchases the bankrupt Alaska Northern and moves the railroad's headquarters to Anchorage, Alaska

The Atlantic Coast Line acquires the Florida Central Railroad .

Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved Wigwag Grade Crossing signal.

The first prototype of the PRR K4s Pacific Steam Locomotive class is built.

BIRTHS

December births

December 16 - O. Winston Link , American Photographer who documented the end of Steam Locomotive use on the Norfolk And Western Railway in the 1950s (d. 2001 ).

Unknown date births

Benjamin W. Heineman , president of the Chicago And North Western Railway .

DEATHS

March deaths

March 12 - George Westinghouse , American inventor; developed the Westinghouse Air Brake (b. 1846 ).

Unknown date deaths

George Frederick Baer , president of Reading Company (b. 1842).

Melville E. Ingalls , president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago And St. Louis Railroad (b. 1842).

William Barstow Strong , president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (b. 1837)

REFERENCES

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Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Indiana Historical Society, '' Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch ''. Retrieved February 15 2005 .

O. Winston Link Museum, '' O. Winston Link Biography ''. Retrieved February 4 2005 .

Pearson Education (, 2005 .

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