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In rail transport, a train is a vehicle or (more frequently) a string of vehicles capable of being moved along a continuous line of rails or other guideway for the purpose of conveying freight or passengers between points on a predetermined route. The train may be hauled or propelled by one or more vehicles designed exclusively for that purpose (locomotives) or may be driven by a number of motors incorporated in all or several of the vehicles. |
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Colonel Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (April 3, 1826 – March 29, 1900) was one of the founders of Topeka, Kansas. He was also the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, as well as one of the railroad's directors for nearly 40 years. He was born to David and Mary (Kennedy) Holliday, in Kidderminster, Pennsylvania (near Carlisle) and received a public school education, graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he studied law, in 1852. While he was still in Meadville, he was asked to prepare legal documentation for a new railroad that would connect to the city. Holliday saw the potential of the line and instead of asking for a standard fee to create the documents, he asked for and was granted a partnership in the new railroad. When this railroad was purchased by the larger system, Holliday earned $20,000 from the sale. In 1854 he moved to Kansas, leaving his wife behind in Pennsylvania to follow later. He first settled in Lawrence in October 1854, and helped to find a location for the new townsite of Topeka by December 1854. Once Topeka was founded, it needed transportation to connect it to the rest of the country. Holliday's legal skills were called on again to create the paperwork for a new railroad. In 1859 he wrote the charter for the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, which would connect the two cities by rail following the route of the Santa Fe Trail. Holliday was named a director and president of the new railroad on September 17, 1860, which was renamed in 1863 to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. During his tenure as president, Holliday secured land grants from the federal government that would soon be used by the railroad to populate the western portion of Kansas in order to build a customer base for the railroad. He stepped down from the presidency at the end of 1863, but remained on the board of directors until July 27, 1865. He rejoined the board on September 24, 1868, this time serving until his death on March 29, 1900.
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A long-exposure photograph of Amtrak's Southwest Chief leaving Hutchinson, Kansas. The Southwest Chief is the indirect successor to the Santa Fe Railroad's Super Chief, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
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- 1873 – The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is reorganized with greater capital as the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.
- 1888 – Charles Crocker (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, dies (b. 1822).
- 1901 – The Atlantic City Railroad (predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) is incorporated from the merger of the Camden County Railroad, Ocean City Railroad and Seacoast Railroad.
- 1936 – The M-10004 streamliner trainset enters service on the City of San Francisco passenger train.
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May 13 – The toll in the trolley accident in the Nilgris Mountain Railway in near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, India has risen to 3 with the death a railway employee succumbing to injuries in a private hospital here on Tuesday. Two persons were killed and six others injured on Sunday when they jumped from the trolley after its brakes failed at Katteri, between Coonoor and Mettupalayam. (The Hindu)
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May 6 – The New Zealand government will pay NZ$665 million to buy back railway and sea ferry operations that were privatized in the 1990s. "The selling of our public rail system in the early 1990s and the running down of the asset afterward has been a painful lesson for New Zealand," Finance Minister Michael Cullen said yesterday. (Toronto Star)
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May 6 – The Abu Dhabi emirate is planning to construct a railway system by the year 2015, to cope with the transportation problem of its ever increasing population, a senior transport official has said. The population of Abu Dhabi is expected to increase to more than three million people by 2030, and planners say it is 'a must' for Abu Dhabi, heavily reliant on a taxi service that often cannot cope with the demand, to have its own metro by 2015. (Khaleej Times)
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May 6 – Fortescue Metals Group has won another round in its long-running quest for third-party access to Pilbara railway lines. The Federal Court of Australia yesterday rejected Rio Tinto's claim that the National Competition Council should rely on a 1999 decision denying access to Robe River instead of considering Fortescue's recent application for access. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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April 30 – US railroad company Genesee and Wyoming Inc announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire CAGY Industries, Inc. for approximately USD$78.4 million in cash. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Columbus, MS, CAGY is the parent company of three short-line railroads, Columbus and Greenville Railway, Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway and Luxapalila Valley Railroad. (Genesee & Wyoming)
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April 29 – Victorian Railways H class locomotive H 220, nicknamed "Heavy Harry", has been added to the Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Council chairman Chris Gallagher said "Harry", the largest locomotive ever built in Australia, warranted the state's highest level of heritage protection. Australian Railway Historical Society (Vic) president Malcolm Davidson said he hoped the state acknowledgement of H 220's historical and cultural significance would fuel moves to further preserve the locomotive, which currently sits in the open exposed to sea air. (Leader News)
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