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none February 2012 1896 1897 1898 1890 Events March events March 24 – Construction begins on the Sierra Railway of California, now known as the Sierra Railroad, between Oakdale and Jamestown, California.California State Railroad Museum Foundation (2001), A brief history of the Sierra Railway and Railroad https://web.archive.org/web/20060427013619/http://www.csrmf.org/railtown/doc.asp?id=311 April 27, 2006 . Retrieved March 24, 2006. May events May 4 – The Rio Grande Junction Railway sells the Colorado Midland out of bankruptcy to private investors. June events June 11 – The Welshampton rail crash in England kills 12. July events July – The Railway Magazine is first published, in London. July 1 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad). July 12 – The Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, a predecessor of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway, is incorporated in the Oklahoma Territory.Good, Mike May 9, 1999 http://tacnet.missouri.org/~mgood/clintonrr/ch_slsf.html Corporate History: St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Company July 10, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050717092552/http://tacnet.missouri.org/~mgood/clintonrr/ch_slsf.html July 17, 2005 dead mdy-all July 22 – At the railroad's first stockholder meeting, the Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad. a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, officially changes its name to Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad.New York Central Railroad 1913 http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company July 18, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060329022640/http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html March 29, 2006 August events August 17 – W. B. Purvis is awarded a patent for an electric railroad switch.Ali-Dinar Ali B. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/Today_B_History.html Today in Black History August 16, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050822053050/http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/Today_B_History.html August 22, 2005 live August 23 – Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the construction of the Ottawa and New York Railway.http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Colin Churcher's Railway Pages July 30, 2006 August 23, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060828225559/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm August 28, 2006 dead August 27 – Whirlpool Rapids Bridge wholly replaces the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge on the U.S.–Canadian border. August 28 – Construction begins on the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian lines of the Trans-Siberian Railway.Trans-Siberian Web Encyclopedia 2004 http://www.transsib.ru/Eng/history-phases.htm Stages of Great Siberian Way construction August 28, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20160329213815/http://www.transsib.ru/Eng/history-phases.htm March 29, 2016 dead mdy-all August 31 – Charles Sanger Mellen succeeds Edwin Winter as president of Northern Pacific Railway.Busbey, T. Addison The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1906 Chicago, Illinois Railway Age 1906 666 September events September 1 – The Tremont Street Subway tunnel in Boston, the oldest subway tunnel in North America, opens. October events October 3 – The Loop Elevated (1.79 miles/2.88 km) in downtown Chicago is opened for service. Lake Street Elevated trains are routed around the Loop, Metropolitan West Side Elevated train began using the Loop on October 11, and South Side Elevated trains began using the Loop on October 18.Chicago "L".org http://www.chicago-l.org/history/chron_metro.html Metropolitan West Side Elevated October 11, 2005 October – Construction begins in Djibouti City on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway. November events November 2 – The Highland Railway's Kyle of Lochalsh Line is completed throughout to the west coast of Scotland.Vallance, H. A. The Highland Railway 1963 David & Charles Dawlish November 23 – Andrew J. Beard invents the "jerry coupler". December events December 27 – The first train is operated on the Randsburg Railway between Kramer and Johannesburg, California.Randsburg Railway – History https://web.archive.org/web/20051227065711/https://www.randsburg-railway.com/history.htm December 27, 2005 . Retrieved December 27, 2005. Unknown date events Several smaller railroads in South Carolina are merged to form the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company of South Carolina, a predecessor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. First successful class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia for the 3ft6in gauge Nippon Railway of Japan (hence the class name Mikado).Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 29 https://web.archive.org/web/20130715063059/http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr29/back.html July 15, 2013 – retrieved October 26, 2006Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway begins full service between Ottawa, Ontario and Parry Sound, Ontario. Narrow gauge Ferrocarril Cazadero la Torre y Tepetongo begins passenger service to Nado, Estado de México.Mexican Narrow Gauge Best, Gerald M. Howell-North 1968 Narrow gauge (750mm ) railway in Estonia is built to connect Viljandi with the Valga–Pärnu line in Mõisaküla. Later the line is extended from Viljandi to Paide and then to Reval (Tallinn) harbour.Ajalugu http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc Eesti Raudtee 23 April 2012 Estonian https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc September 23, 2017 dead mdy-all Births February births February 14 – Robert R. Young, chairman of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and New York Central (d. 1958). November births November 16 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946–1948, is born (d. 1978). Unknown date births Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1945–1966 (d. 1967).University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives, Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945–1967 https://web.archive.org/web/20020607015301/http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/uaccard/UAControlCard.asp?RG=1&SG=20&RS=3 June 7, 2002 . Retrieved February 9, 2006. Deaths April deaths April 3 – Albert Fink, German American civil engineer and railroad manager (b. 1827). May deaths May 20 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (b. 1814). July deaths July 17 – Charles Frederick Crocker, son of Charles Crocker of California's Big Four railroaders, president of San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad, dies (b. 1854). September deaths September 14 – Carl Abraham Pihl, Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) 1865–1897 (b. 1825). October deaths October 19 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (b. 1831). December deaths December 1 – William Dudley Chipley, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873–1876 (b. 1840). Unknown date deaths Aretas Blood, second superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works (b. 1816). References Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 16, 2005. 3