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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

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19th century

1894 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps '' El Gobernador '', at the time the largest Locomotive in the world.¹

20th century

1923 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad .

1933 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines .

1936 – The New York Central introduces the '' Mercury '' Passenger Train between Detroit, Michigan , and Cleveland, Ohio .

21st century

2004 – Dennis H. Miller is promoted to president of the Iowa Interstate Railroad .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1976 - William C. Coleman , president of Monon Railroad , (b. 1901 ).²

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