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EVENTS

1901 – Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt announces the railroad's plan to enter New York City — to tunnel under the Hudson River and to build a grand station on the West Side of Manhattan , a station that would become Pennsylvania Station .

1911 – Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway inaugurates its first extra-fare Named Passenger Train , the '' Santa Fe De Luxe '' between Chicago, Illinois , and Los Angeles, California .

''', on the southeast side of London , England .

2004 – SNCF disallows smoking on all French TGV trains.

2004 – Swiss Federal Railways begins the first phase of implementing its Rail2000 plan to improve service.

BIRTHS

1849 – William Kissam Vanderbilt , heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1920 ).

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