January 3 in rail transport

1901 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas.
1906 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.
1912 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia.
1986 – The Vancouver SkyTrain begins operations between Vancouver's waterfront and New Westminster.

2003 – A passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad, crashes into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India, [...] 18 people. See: Ghatnandur train crash.
2005 – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener, formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad, as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas Mexican Railway divisions.

Births

1810 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).
1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-1868 (d. 1891).
1900 – C.L. Dellums, cofounder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (d. 1989)

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