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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 2.

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Events

19th century

1893 – The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act is enacted, mandating that all cars in interchange service be equipped with air brakes, automatic couplers and grab irons.

20th century

1970 – The Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway merge to form Burlington Northern Railroad.

21st century

2005 – Citing disputes in paid leave policies, around 200 BNSF Railway dispatchers walk off the job for nearly three hours, causing traffic delays over the entire system from Chicago to the Pacific coast.

Births

1865 – Frederick Methvan Whyte, New York Central Railroad mechanical engineer who developed Whyte notation, is born (d. 1941).[1]

Deaths

1894 – William H. Osborn, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1855-1865, president of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1875-1882, dies (b. 1820).
1951 – Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company, dies (b. 1877).

References

Lane, Harold Francis, ed. (1913). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1913 Edition. Simmons-Boardman, New York. p. 588.

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