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This article lists events related to
rail transport that occurred in 1905.
Events
Victoria Falls Bridge nears completion
January events
March events
April events
June events
July events
August events
September events
October events
November events
November 3 - The Englewood branch of the old South Side Elevated system of the
Chicago 'L' opens between 59th Street junction and State Street.
Unknown date events
Births
January births
January 17 -
Louis Armand , French railway engineer, manager and resistance fighter (died 1971).
January 21 -
Oswald Nock , English railway author and signalling engineer (died 1994).
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Deaths
Charles Tyson Yerkes
February deaths
September deaths
December deaths
References
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Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History (1900 - 1949)
Archived 2006-05-24 at the
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^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages, (January 8, 2006),
Significant dates in Ottawa railway history
Archived 2006-04-27 at the
Wayback Machine . Retrieved January 30, 2006.
^ Signor, John R. (1988). The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company; Union Pacific's Historic Salt Lake Route .
San Marino, California :
Golden West Books . p. 37.
ISBN
0-87095-101-7 .
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b
c Signor, John R., ed. (Jan–Mar 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet . Vol. 12, no. 1. pp. 17–29. (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
^
a
b
c Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe .
Lawrence, Kansas :
University of Kansas Press . pp. 389–392.
^ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations . Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
^
"A Nevada Northern Railway History" . Archived from
the original on 2005-04-24. Retrieved 2005-09-08 .
^ American Society of Civil Engineers.
"Victoria Falls Bridge" . Archived from
the original on 2005-05-06. Retrieved 2007-08-01 .
^
"The Victoria Falls Bridge" . Geoff's Trains . Archived from
the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2007-08-01 .
^
a
b Saxena, R. P. (2008).
"Indian Railway History Time Line" . Archived from
the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-12-23 .
^ Vanns, M. A. (May 2006).
"Nock, Oswald Stevens (1905-1994)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/55169 . Retrieved 2010-01-28 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Robber Baron: the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes" . Archived from
the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2007 .
Further reading