July 4 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 4.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 19th century
- 1828 – Construction begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1851 – Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the Pacific Railroad Company, a railroad later to become the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
- 1879 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Las Vegas, New Mexico.[1]
[edit] 20th century
- 1996 – SNCF's president Loïk Le Floch-Prigent is imprisoned at the Santé prison in Paris. He was accused of being part of the Elf scandal.
[edit] 21st century
- 2002 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division announces that it will build new locomotives for HSBC Rail; the locomotives will be leased by CargoNet for use in Norway north of the Arctic Circle and are expected to enter service after February 2003.
- 2005 – EWS is presented with the Award for Innovation from International Freighting Weekly for the railroad's design of a new parcel cage it is using between the West Midlands and central Scotland.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 19th century
- 1887 – Anson P. Morrill, president of Maine Central Railroad 1864-1866 and 1873-1875 (b. 1803).[2]
[edit] 20th century
- 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (b. 1884).
- 1976 – Fred Gurley, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1944-1957 (b. 1889).[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- ^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress MORRILL, Anson Peaslee, (1803 - 1887). Retrieved December 29, 2005.
- ^ "Short and Significant: Santa Fe's Fred Gurley dies at 87" (July 26, 1976). Railway Age 177 (13): p 8.
