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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)
BIRTHS
DEATHS
REFERENCES
Railway Age (
2005
.