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- March 1
![a Santa Fe passenger train of the 1890s](../../../I/ATSF_1890s_passenger_train.jpg.webp)
a Santa Fe passenger train of the 1890s
- 1816 – John Souther, founder of Globe Locomotive Works, is born (d. 1911).
- 1876 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (pictured) reaches Pueblo, Colorado.
- 1920 – Control of American railroads is returned to private ownership and administration with the disbandment of the USRA.
- 1989 – The Abbeville-Grimes Railway (a predecessor of the Bay Line Railroad) begins operations between its namesake cities in Alabama.
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