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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

19th century

1838 – The United States government contracts with the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad to carry Mail ; the B&O is the first railroad to be awarded such a contract in the US.

1839 – The New Jersey Railroad And Transportation Company opens its route between Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey .

1862 – Maj. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson marches his troops northward with the objective of disrupting traffic on the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal ; the Battle Of Hancock is unsuccessful and the Confederate Army withdraws.

1868 – Construction begins on the Colorado And Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado .

20th century

1900 – The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint And Pere Marquette Railway Company , Detriot, Lansing And Northern Railroad and Chicago And West Michigan Railroad .

1902 – The Swiss Federal Railways is formed through the merger and nationalization of several smaller railroads.

1923 – The London And North Eastern Railway is formed through the merger of several smaller railways in Great Britain .

1932 – William Stanier succeeds Ernest Lemon as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland And Scottish Railway .

1932 – Ralph Budd leaves the Great Northern Railway and becomes president of the Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad .

1933 – The London, Brighton And South Coast Railway 's '' Southern Belle '' is re-equipped with electric Multiple Unit cars to replace Steam power.

1945 – The national railway operator in the Republic Of Ireland , Great Southern Railways , with responsibility for the southern part of the Irish Railway Network is merged into a new national transport operator, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ).

1948 – British railroads are nationalized and merged to form British Railways .

1957 – The Chicago And North Western Railway leases the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (the Omaha Road).

1958 – The Chicago And North Western Railway acquires the Litchfield And Madison Railroad .

1986 – The Soo Line fully absorbs the Milwaukee Road after attempting to operate it as a subsidiary railroad.

1994 – Rail Management Corporation takes over operations of the Atlanta And St. Andrews Bay Railroad .

1994 – Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn are merged to form Deutsche Bahn AG .

21st century

2003 – E. Hunter Harrison is promoted to president of Canadian National Railway .¹

2004 – METRORail Light Rail service in Houston, Texas , opens.

2005 – ÖBB , the national railway of Austria , is reorganized into ÖBB-Holding AG, a holding company to manage subsidiaries ÖBB-Dienstleistungs GmbH, ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG (for passenger train operations) and Rail Cargo Austria AG (for freight train operations).

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1880 – Morris Ketchum , partner in Rogers, Ketchum And Grosvenor , director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796 ).²

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