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EVENTS
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
.
BIRTHS
DEATHS
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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