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1905 – Construction begins on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad in Florida .

1918 – The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States , guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroads from the USRA at the end of World War I .

2001 – A General Motors Electro-Motive Division JT42CWR (Series 66) becomes the first American -built Diesel Locomotive to cross the Germany - Switzerland border as it leads a Container train from Cologne to Mutenz .

2003 – Official launch of M>Train 's new Siemens Mo-Mo trains in Melbourne , Australia .

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1946 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury , Chief Mechanical Engineer and manager of Great Western Railway Of Brazil 1892 - 1894 , general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902 - 1912 , Director of the London And North Eastern Railway 1912 - 1945 , dies (b. 1861 ).

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