Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 26

1846 – John M. Forbes becomes president of the Michigan Central Railroad.
1918 – The Council of the People's Commissars in Russia issues a decree "for the centralization of control, the protection of railroads and increase in their capacity."
1931 – The Uwajima Railway receives permission to operate gasoline-powered locomotives over what is now known as the Yodo Line in Shikoku, Japan.
2005 – Fire destroys the 75-year-old Deval Tower (pictured) in Des Plaines, Illinois; the tower housed one of the few remaining manual interlocking mechanisms still in use on American railroads. The tower's current owner, Union Pacific Railroad, does not plan to rebuild it.

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