train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stays at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and becomes the only fatality. The train's passengers later erect a monument in the engineer's honor. October events October 1 – Karawanks Tunnel is opened to provide a through route between Klagenfurt and Trieste in Austria-Hungary. October 10 – Valdresbanen is completed from Oslo to Fagernes, Norway. November events November 13 – Shinpei Goto begins his term as the first president of South Manchuria Railway. November 12 – Dunedin railway station in New Zealand is officially opened. November 29 – Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway (US), is killed in a railroad accident; he will be succeeded by William Finley. November – The last locomotive built by the Portland Company is completed for the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad. December events December 2 - Construction begins on Santa Fe's Rocky Ford, Colorado, station; the station is completed and occupied by the end of March 1907. December 7 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line. December 14 – John D. Spreckels announces he will form the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company and build a 148-mile (238-kilometre) line between San Diego and El Centro, California. Spreckels has an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad to silently fund the project. December 15 The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens in London. The SEPTA trolley subway opens as Route 34 is routed underground in Philadelphia. December 28 Elliot Junction rail accident in Scotland: 22 killed in a collision during a blizzard. After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McRea. December 30 – A train wreck at Terra Cotta near modern-day Fort Totten in Washington, D.C., kills 52; the accident leads to the Interstate Commerce Commission banning future wooden body passenger car construction. Unknown date events Prussian S 6 Class 4-4-0 steam locomotives introduced; 584 are eventually built to this design. Births Deaths June deaths June 4 – Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (born 1836). December deaths December 28 – Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (born 1839). References