March 21 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 21.
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- 1905 – Construction begins on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad in Florida.
- 1918 – The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States, guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroads from the USRA at the end of World War I.
- 2001 – A General Motors Electro-Motive Division JT42CWR (Series 66) becomes the first American-built diesel locomotive to cross the Germany-Switzerland border as it leads a container train from Cologne to Mutenz.
- 2003 – Official launch of M>Train's new Siemens Mo-Mo trains in Melbourne, Australia.
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- 1946 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892-1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902-1912, Director of the London and North Eastern Railway 1912-1945, dies (b. 1861).
