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none 1889 1890 1891 1890 Events January events January 28 – Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad acquires a section of the McKeesport and Belle Vernon Railroad around Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.http://www.plerrhs.org/society/history.shtml History of the P&LE Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society December 7, 2004 January 28, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100502030410/http://www.plerrhs.org/society/history.shtml May 2, 2010 dead February events February 22 – Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railway (the "Big Four Railroad") gains control of the Peoria & Eastern Railway in southern Illinois.(August 31, 2005), History of Champaign-Urbana Transportation Inc.- Part 3: Railroads. Retrieved February 22, 2006. thumb|250px|Forth Bridge March events March – Émile Zola's psychological novel with a railway setting, La Bête Humaine, is published in book form. March 4 – The Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth in Scotland is officially opened and its contractor, William Arrol, is knighted.Thomas John The North British Railway, vol. 2 1975 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-6699-8 May events May 9 – Boston & Maine Railroad ends its lease of the Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts by purchasing it. May 20 – Wutach Valley Railway opened to provide a strategic route inside Germany without crossing the Swiss border. July events July 23 – Narrow gauge Kennebec Central Railroad opens to Togus, Maine.Two Feet to Togus Jones, Robert C. Evergreen Press 1999 0-9667264-1-3 18 August events August 18 – The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway, begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine.Kansas City Southern Historical Society http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm The Kansas City Southern Lines 2005-08-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20050828172330/http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm 28 August 2005 live August 19 – Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Ohio Valley Railway reorganized as the Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad. August 19 – In Quincy, Massachusetts, a jack used to level rails was left on the tracks. A passenger train then collided with it causing a derailment. Twenty-four people were killed due to the impact of the collision and through scalding.http://thomascranelibrary.org/sites/default/files/1994.2.pdf Quincy's Two Great Railroad Disasters 1994 June 14, 2017 Quincy History Quincy, MA April 8, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230408022705/http://thomascranelibrary.org/sites/default/files/1994.2.pdf dead November events thumb|380px|City & South London Railway train, from Illustrated London News, 1890 November 4 – Official opening of the City & South London Railway, earliest constituent of the Northern line of the London Underground and the first real deep-level electrified "tube" railway in the world.July 2025 November 9 – First section of metre gauge Chemin de fer du Vivarais in southern France opens, using Mallet locomotives.David Joy Engines that Bend: narrow gauge articulated locomotives Southend Atlantic Publishers 2012 978-1-902827-23-0 28 November 10 – Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits begins to operate the Rome Express train from Calais Maritime station via Paris and the Fréjus Rail Tunnel. November 26 – The Mito Line in Japan operates its first freight trains. Unknown date events First Class О 0-8-0 steam locomotive built for service in Russia. 9129 locomotives of this type will be built up to 1928, making it the country's most numerous.Леонид МАКАРОВ March 2005 http://ukrtrains.narod.ru/int/tm/05-3_ov814.htm ru:ОВЕЧКА Историческая серия "Техники Молодежи" ФОТОМАГИСТРАЛЬ 2009-03-31 ru Klien-Lindner axle patented. Hugh J. Chisholm forms the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway to link Androscoggin River papermills to the Maine Central Railroad. Leland Stanford begins his term as Chairman of the Executive Committee for Southern Pacific. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. steps down from the presidency of the Union Pacific. Births August births August 16 – CP Couch, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1939–1941 (d. 1955). Deaths July deaths July 15 – Silas Seymour, chief engineer and/or consulting engineer for several railroads in New York in the mid- to late 19th century (b. 1817). September deaths September 30 – Frederick Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881 (b. 1823). References Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved August 16, 2005.