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SkyTrain at Granville station

1810 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870, is born (d. 1870).
1912 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia.[1]
1986 – Vancouver's SkyTrain (pictured) begins operations between the waterfront and New Westminster.[1]
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.

References

"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. April 3, 2005. Retrieved August 6, 2005.

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