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EVENTS

19th century

1862 – The Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln .

1862 – The Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.

1897 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis And Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad )

20th century

1902 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury becomes General Manager of the Great Northern Railway in England .

1922 – The Great Railroad Strike Of 1922 begins in the United States , coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven Cent s per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board .

1968 – The Chicago Great Western Railway is merged into the Chicago And North Western Railway to avoid bankruptcy.

21st century

2001 – Elipsos , a joint venture of SNCF ( France ) and RENFE ( Spain ), is created to handle the logistics of night trains between the two systems.

2002 – Norges Statsbaner is privatised under the Norwegian Ministry Of Transport And Communications .

2002 – The railroad Dining Car catering services of Mitropa , which was founded in 1916, are handed over to DB Reise & Touristik AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn .

2004 – The Luas light rail system in Dublin , Ireland , opens.

2005 – Indian Railways inaugurates two new '' Shatabdi Express '' Passenger Train s, one between Chennai and Bangalore and a new ''Jan-Shatabdi Express'' between Madgaon and Mangalore .

2005 – Connex takes over the contract to operate Metrolink in Southern California from its previous operator, Amtrak . (Railway Age)

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REFERENCES

Railway Age ( 2005 .