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Events

January events

• January 3 - At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 3. ... The Cleveland Short Line Railway was a freight bypass around southern Cleveland, Ohio on the New York Central Railroads Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway system. ...

April events

• April 18 - The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake strikes, damaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's headquarters building and destroying the mansions of the now-deceased Big Four. Also destroyed are many cable car routes, which will be replaced with electric streetcars.

April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... San Francisco City Hall, April 20, 1906 The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ... The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ... Alternate meaning: The Big Four (novel) The Big Four were the chief entrepreneurs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. ...

May events

• May 8 A special train carrying E.H. Harriman makes a run from Oakland CA to New York in 761 hours and 27 minutes. This record will stand until October 1934, when it will be broken by Union Pacific Streamliner M-10000.
• May 19 The Simplon Railroad Tunnel between Italy and Switzerland, the world’s longest until 1979, opens to traffic.

May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ...

June events

• June 30 - Twenty four passengers and four railwaymen die as the result of a collision between two trains at Salisbury, England.

June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... In the Salisbury rail crash of 30 June 1906, a passenger train failed to take a very sharp curve at the station, hitting another train. ... Salisbury Cathedral from the Cathedral Yard High Street Market Great West Front of Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury (pronounced Solsbree or Sauls-bree) is a small cathedral city in Wiltshire, England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...

July events

• July 22 - The State Street Line, Chicago's last cable car route, ends operations.

22 July is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... Cable car can mean: a street railway system using a cable in the road to pull the cars along; see cable car (railway). ...

September events

• September 8 - Ottawa's Bank Street subway is opened as streetcar number 253 of the Ottawa Electric Railway traverses the tunnel.
• September 21 - A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stayed at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and became the only fatality. The train's passengers later erected a monument in the engineer's honor.

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada location. ... a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Grand Trunk Railway logo or herald The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) was a historic railway system headquartered in Montreal, Quebec which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ... Greater Napanee (2001 population 15,132) is a town in Lennox and Addington County in eastern Ontario, Canada approximately 40 kilometres west of Kingston. ...

December events

• December 7 - The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.
• December 14 - John D. Spreckels announces he will form the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company and build a 148 mile (238 km) line between San Diego and El Centro, California. Spreckels has an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad to silently fund the project.
• December 28 - After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McRea.
• December 30 - A train wreck at Terra Cotta near present day Fort Totten in Washington DC kills 52. The accident leads to the Interstate Commerce Commission banning future wooden body passenger car construction.

December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ... The Union Pacific Railroad NYSE: UNP is the largest railroad in the United States. ... A string of refrigerator cars owned by Pacific Fruit Express is supplied with fresh ice in the Spring of 1964. ... A refrigerator car (or reefer) is a refrigerated boxcar, a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The San Diego and Arizona Railway was a short line American railroad (AAR reporting mark SDA) founded by sugar heir, developer, and entrepreneur John D. Spreckels, and dubbed The Impossible Railroad by many engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved. ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... City nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Government County San Diego Mayor vacant Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 372. ... El Centro is the county seat of Imperial County, California, United States. ... The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Alexander Cassatt somewhere between 1890-1900. ... 1911 map The Pennsylvania Railroad (AAR reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad existing 1846–1968, after which it merged into Penn Central Transportation. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... ... The Interstate Commerce Commission was created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. ...

Unknown date events

• The Green Bay and Western acquires a majority interest in the Ahnapee and Western Railway.
• Samuel Spencer is succeeded by William Finley as president of the Southern Railway.

Categories: Rail stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | Defunct companies | Wisconsin railroads ... The Southern Railway (AAR designation SOU) was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s. ...

Births

Deaths

June deaths

• June 6 - Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (b. 1836).

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 — 4 June 1906) was a British locomotive engineer who worked for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Biography Webb was born in Tixall Rectory, near Stafford, Staffordshire, the second son of William Webb, Rector of Tixall. ... Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British railway companies to persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives. ... The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

December deaths

• December 28 - Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (b. 1839).

December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Alexander Cassatt somewhere between 1890-1900. ... 1911 map The Pennsylvania Railroad (AAR reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad existing 1846–1968, after which it merged into Penn Central Transportation. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 3, 2004), Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history. Retrieved September 8, 2005.
• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 21, 2005.
• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), RPI: Alumni hall of fame: Alexander J. Cassatt. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Dodge, Richard V. (1960) Rails of the Silver Gate, Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. ISBN 0-87095-019-3
• Hanft, Robert M. (1984) San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad, Trans-Anglo Books, Glendale, CA. ISBN 0-87046-071-4
• History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
• Thompson, Anthony W., et al (1992) Pacific Fruit Express, Signature Press, Wilton, CA. ISBN 1-930013-03-5
• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.