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March 7

The Virginian Railway yard at Victoria, Virginia, in 1954

The Virginian Railway yard at Victoria, Virginia, in 1954

1877 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943, is born (d. 1943).^[1]
1910 – George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903–1909, dies (b. 1842).
1932 – William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (pictured), dies (b. 1854).
2005 – Amtrak's Three Rivers is discontinued west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

See also

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References

↑ Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.

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