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Ernest Rutherford

1877 – Rørosbanen, Norway's oldest mainline railway, opens as a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railway.
1902 – Professor Ernest Rutherford (pictured) of McGill University demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal.[1]
1914 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
1988 – Rio Grande Industries, parent company of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, purchases Southern Pacific Railroad; the post-merger company adopts the Southern Pacific name due to brand recognition with shippers.

References

"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved October 12, 2006.

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