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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 3.
Events
19th century
20th century
- 1901 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas.[2]
- 1906 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.[1]
- 1912 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia.[3]
- 1986 – The Vancouver SkyTrain begins operations between Vancouver's waterfront and New Westminster.[3]
21st century
- 2003 – A passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad, crashes into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India, killing 18 people. See: Ghatnandur train crash.
- 2005 – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener, formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad, as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas Mexican Railway divisions.
Births
- 1810 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (died 1870).
- 1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-1868 (died 1891).
- 1860 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917-1928 (died 1936).
- 1900 – C.L. Dellums, cofounder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (died 1989)
Deaths
References
- 1 2 "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". Retrieved 2005-08-06.
- ↑ Beck, Wayne (1957). "The History of the St. Louis Soutwestern Railway". Coton Belt News. Retrieved 2005-08-06.
- 1 2 "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. April 3, 2005. Retrieved 2005-08-06.
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