acquires the Florida Central Railroad. October 13 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario. October 23 – Northwestern Pacific Railroad is completed connecting Humboldt County, California to the United States rail network. December events December 20 – Tokyo Station in Japan opens. December 29 – San Francisco's Stockton Street Tunnel opens primarily to serve the F Stockton streetcar line. Unknown date events The railhead of the Central Line (Mittellandbahn) across German East Africa from the coast reaches Kigoma on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad simplifies its official name to New York Central. The Alaska Northern Railway (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership. The United States government purchases the road and moves its headquarters to the location that will become Anchorage. Magnetic Signal Company is awarded a U.S. patent on an improved wigwag grade crossing signal. The first prototype of the Pennsylvania Railroad K4 Pacific steam locomotive class (PRR 1737) is built. Baldwin Locomotive Works build the first 2-8-8-8-2 triplex locomotive, Matt H. Shay, for the Erie Railroad. Births February births February 10 – Benjamin W. Heineman, president of Chicago and North Western Railway 1956–1972 (died 2012). December births December 16 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documents the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s (died 2001). Deaths January deaths January 21 – Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Scottish financier, promoter of the Canadian Pacific Railway (born 1820). March deaths March 12 – George Westinghouse, American inventor; developed the Westinghouse air brake (born 1846). April deaths April 26 – George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (born 1842). July deaths July – Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (born 1842). August deaths August 3 - William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (born 1837). August 24 - Darius Miller, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1910–1914 (b. 1859). November deaths November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (born 1832). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11, 2005. (July 28, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 16,