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March: The Copper
Range Railroad purchases two 1,000 horsepower Baldwin
Westinghouse diesel locomotives.
Steam power is all but eliminated. [CRH]
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June 6: Pere
Marquette RR is consolidated into The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. [MDOT][PMHS]
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Passenger trains operate over
160,000 miles of U.S. railroad. [STOV]
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Lima Locomotive Works and the
Hamilton Corporation merge to become Lima-Hamilton. [SAM]
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