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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 26.
Events
19th century
- 1846 – John M. Forbes becomes president of the Michigan Central Railroad.
20th century
- 1906 – New Haven Railroad completes the property acquisition of Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway.[1]
- 1918 – The Council of the People's Commissars in Russia issues a decree "for the centralization of control, the protection of railroads and increase in their capacity."
- 1931 – The Uwajima Railway receives permission to operate gasoline-powered locomotives over what is now known as the Yodo Line in Shikoku, Japan.
- 1953 – Japanese Government Railways opens the Uwejima Line extension from Yoshinobu to Ekawasaki.
21st century
- 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.
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ Government Printing Office (1914). New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.: Evidence Taken Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Vol. II. pp. 2366–2374, 2394–2397 – via Google Books.