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A demonstrator Green Goat locomotive in 2005

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[edit]

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