Over in Virginia, another intrastate railroad, the Tidewater Railway, was formed in 1904, with right-of-way all the way across the southern tier of Virginia from Giles County ( which borders West Virginia ) to Norfolk County on Hampton Roads.

The Tidewater Railway was formed in 1904 as an intrastate railroad in Virginia, in the United States, by William N. Page, a civil engineer and entrepreneur, and his silent partner, millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers of Standard Oil fame.

Therefore, on October 13, 1904, they had new intrastate railroad company, the Tidewater Railway chartered in Virginia to be used for the portion of their project to be in that state.

* January 1 – The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens after its completion on July 21, 1904.

Two interurban ( long-distance trolley ) lines served Latrobe: The Westmoreland County Railway Company connected Latrobe to Derry, operating 1904 to 1932.

The Norfolk and Western Railway extended a spur into the village, then called Blairs, with the first train arriving in 1904.

When it arrived in 1904, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway made a big difference.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway first opened its Paintsville depot on September 1, 1904, following 25 years of work connecting it to Lawrence County.

In 1904, the Tallulah Falls Railway was completed to Clayton from Cornelia, Georgia and was later extended to Franklin, North Carolina by 1907.

The Northern Pacific Railway came to it in 1889 and the city was incorporated in 1904.

Funkley was incorporated in 1904 at the site of a junction along the Minnesota and International Railway.

The Great Northern Railway was built through what is now Whitefish in 1904, which sparked development of the town.

After his service as Secretary of War, Lamont was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from 1898 to 1904.

The townsite was platted in 1904 by L. R. Kershaw, who was an attorney and was also an Immigration Agent for the Frisco ( St. Louis – San Francisco Railway ) Railroad.

In 1904, the Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway gained permission from Mars to construct its right-of-way through the borough.

With the extension of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway south from Alice to his ranch in 1904, Lasater founded the town of Falfurrias and subdivided a sizable portion of his ranch land for sale to other farmers.

In 1904, The St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico Railway reached the area, and a town was formed that July.

The Hidalgo and San Miguel Extension ( later called the Sam Fordyce Branch ) of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway reached the site in July 1904, when the town was founded.

The community emerged on the coastal prairie in 1904 with the arrival of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway.

This was a new east-west railroad chartered in 1904 with its right of way quietly secured in 1904 and 1905, so as to not alert the competition regarding plans to transport coal originated by its sister Deepwater Railway operating in southern West Virginia.

The Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railway reached the town in 1904.

The remainder of the Gila Valley pre-Purchase border area was traversed by the Arizona Eastern Railway by 1899 and the Copper Basin Railway by 1904.

From 1904 to 1935 there was a passenger service on the North Friesland Railway, freight being carried until January 1938.

In 1904, the residents chose Frisco City in honor of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway on which the town was founded, later shortened to its present name.

The Manifold Way is an long-distance footpath from Hulme End to Waterhouses, along the former route of the narrow gauge ( 2 ' 6 ") Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway which operated between 1904 and 1934.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Hanch was treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, an Indianapolis firm which had manufactured flour-milling machinery before producing the Marmon car in 1904.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember he was run down in Brussels.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.

The 1904 Thomson model was disproved by the 1909 gold foil experiment, which was interpreted by Ernest Rutherford in 1911

Thomson's paper was published in the March 1904 edition of the Philosophical Magazine, the leading British science journal of the day.

From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only.

The first was probably the cycle A Shropshire Lad set by Arthur Somervell in 1904, who had begun to develop the concept of the English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.