Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 26
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- 1846 – John M. Forbes becomes president of the Michigan Central Railroad.
- 2005 – Fire destroys the 75-year-old Deval Tower (pictured) in Des Plaines, Illinois; the tower housed one of the few remaining manual interlocking mechanisms still in use on American railroads. The tower's current owner, Union Pacific Railroad, does not plan to rebuild it.
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- March 26 in rail transport
