Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 14

1891 – James Grant, first president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1851-1854, dies (b. 1812).
1912 – W. Graham Claytor Jr., president of Southern Railway 1967-1977 and Amtrak 1982-1993, is born (d. 1994).
2005 – Paul Côté becomes president and CEO of VIA Rail Canada.[1]
2005 – Canadian Pacific Railway purchases 35 new Green Goat (pictured) hybrid locomotives, becoming the first railroad to order this type of locomotive.

References

"VIA Rail names Cote president and CEO". Railway Age. April 2005. Retrieved March 14, 2011.

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