Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 5

1853 – Cecil Rhodes (pictured), instrumental in the development of a Cape-Cairo railway route, is born (d. 1902).
1942 – The multiple unit passenger trainsets used by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad on the Prospector between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are removed from revenue service; the train is now equipped with standard locomotives and unpowered passenger cars.
1999 – Beginning July 5 until July 31, 24 trains help in moving the German government 480 km (300 mi) from Bonn to Berlin.
2005 – Kansas City Southern Railway names Francisco Javier Rión as the new CEO, succeeding interim CEO Vicente Corta Fernandez, for its subsidiary Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana.

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