SEPTEMBER 02 1913New Haven Railroad train crash kills 21 and injure 50.SEPTEMBER 02 1919Congress passes bill barring railroad strikes.SEPTEMBER 02 1935Florida East Coast Railways' route to Key West, Florida is closed after being damaged by a hurricane.SEPTEMBER 02 1938New York Central's coach #1472 becomes the first passenger car to use fluorescent lighting.
September 01, 1859
George Pullman's first sleeping car, Chicago & Alton #9, makes it's first run from Bloomington, Illinois to Chicago.
September 01, 1873
The first commercially successful cable car line, the Clay Street Hill Railroad, opens for business in San Francisco.
September 01, 1887
In the state of Michigan, the Chicago & Northwestern builds a line from Iron River to Watersmeet.
September 01, 1888
Also in the state of Michigan, the St. Joseph Valley opens a 3' gauge line from Buchanan to Berrien Springs.
September 01, 1894
St. Paul & Duluth's Duluth Limited flees a forest fire which had killed over 400 people.
September 01, 1903
In the state of Michigan, the T&W (Toledo & Western?) opened it's line in Adrian from the Wabash Railroad to Adrian's own center.
September 01, 1909
In Ottawa, Ontario, workmen on the Grand Trunk begin to tear down the Central Depot to make room for a new Union Station. The newly completed Baggage Annex is used as a temporary station until the completion of the new building.
September 01, 1933
In the state of Michigan, the T&W ended passenger service to Adrian.
September 01, 1940
M.C. LaBertew becomes Vice-President and general manager of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.
September 01, 1941
The Denver & Rio Grande Western operated it's last narrow gauge train to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
September 01, 1947
A railroad travel installment plan, known as the Rail Traveloan Service, became effective with approximately 70 major rail lines cooperating with local banks to provide qualified applicants with with rail transportation, Pullman accomodations, all-expense trips and any passenger service regularly sold through railroad ticket offices.
September 01, 1964
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway received from Alco the first C-424's, #300-306, in the new broad stripe paint scheme.
September 01, 1966
In the Canadian province of Ontario, Canadian Pacific is authorized to abandon it's Kingston subdivision between Sharbot Lake and Snow Road.
September 01, 1968
Magma Arizona dieselizes.
Illinois Central assumes control of the Tennessee Central Railway.
September 01, 1981
Norfolk & Western takes over the Illinois Terminal.
AUGUST 26 1878The 3rd Avenue El in New York City opens. Of Manhattans elevated railroads the 3rd Avenue El remained in service the longest, running for nearly 80 years.
AUGUST 25 1829The locomotive, Tom Thumb, races with a horse drawn train, but loses when the engine breaks down.AUGUST 25 191127 killed in train accident at Manchester, NY.AUGUST 25 1943Last narrow gauge train on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad.AUGUST 25 1970The Mobile & Gulf ends the last U.S. common carrier steam operation.
President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
This last one, from August 25, 1950 is from WHAS.com On This Date in History.
AUGUST 22 1905Portland & Seattle Ry. (P&S) incorporatedAUGUST 22 1910The first passenger train to run over the entire line of the Western Pacific Railroad arrives in San Francisco from Salt Lake City.AUGUST 22 1935B & O places first diesel locomotives to haul long distance passenger trains into service.AUGUST 22 1968Last use of steam on the Magma Arizona Railroad.
AUGUST 21 1935Union Pacific's Challenger begins service as the second section of the Los Angeles Limited.
AUGUST 20 1852The first steam engine to operate west of the Mississippi River, The Pacific of the Pacific of Missouri RR, was delivered at the Pine Street Wharf by river barge.AUGUST 20 1894First Heisler-type locomotive completed by Stearns Manufacturing Co. in Erie, Pennsylvania.
AUGUST 19 1916President Wilson demands railroads grant 8 hour workday.AUGUST 19 1964No. 2 collides with log truck near Stevenson, WA (SP&S Ry.)
AUGUST 18 1883Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary.
AUGUST 17 1897W B Purvis patents electric railway switch.
AUGUST 16 1851
International rail service opens from Laprarie, Quebec to Rouses Point, New York.
AUGUST 15 1863Submarine HL Hunley arrives in Charleston on railroad cars.AUGUST 15 1870The Kansas Pacific Railroad reaches Denver.AUGUST 15 1947Rock Island completes $15 million, five-site Iowa relocation projects.
AUGUST 14 1900
Railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington dies.
AUGUST 13 193924 killed in train accident at Carlin, NV.AUGUST 13 1960East Broad Top Railroad reopened as a tourist railroad.AUGUST 13 1965Pacific Electric Railway merges with parent Southern Pacific Railroad.
AUGUST 12 1988
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) operations taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad.
AUGUST 11 1955 Last Wabash steam locomotive in use, #573, is retired at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation.
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AUGUST 10 1885 The Baltimore & Hampden Line becomes the first commercial electric railroad. AUGUST 10 1887 81 people are killed and hundreds injured at Chatsworth, IL when a burning bridge collapses under the weight of a crossing train. AUGUST 10 1972 The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio merge to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. AUGUST 10 1973 First BART train travels through trans-bay tube to Montgomery Street Station.
JULY 09 1905 Special train chartered by Walter Scott (Death Valley Scotty), departs Los Angeles and makes record run to Chicago in 44 hours, 54 minutes. JULY 09 1908 Ruth Trust Company incorporated (SP&S Ry.) JULY 09 1918 Worst railroad accident in U.S. history occurs when two passenger trains collide near Nashville, Tennessee killing 101.
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Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes from a train they stopped north of London.
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AUGUST 08 1829 The Stonebridge Lion becomes the first English steam locomotive to travel on a track in America between Carbondale and Honesdale, PA on the Delaware & Hudson. It was found to be too heavy for the track and was converted to stationary use soon afterward and the D&H resumes using horses to pull its trains. AUGUST 08 1865 Patent #49,227 issued to Samual Calthrop for a streamlined train.
AUGUST 06 1867 A group of Cheyenne braves derail a Union Pacific train near Plum Creek, Nebraska. AUGUST 06 1922 40 killed in train accident at Sulpher Springs, MO.
AUGUST 02 1873First trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones.AUGUST 02 1919Railroad workers strike for higher wages, ask for profit sharing and government ownership.AUGUST 02 1924SP&S Transportation Co. incorporated (motor buses)AUGUST 02 1965Florida East Coast resumes state-ordered passenger service.
AUGUST 01 1836Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur Railroad decides to uses sandboxes on locomotives to prevent them from slipping on squashed grasshoppers.AUGUST 01 1873Andrew Hallidie demonstrates practical cable car system on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco.
JULY 31 1809First practical US railroad, horse-drawn cars on wooden track, Philadelphia.JULY 31 1847Monon Route chartered.JULY 31 1851The 5'6 gauge, broad gauge, is adopted as the standard gauge for Ontario and Quebec. The broad gauge was used until about 1870.JULY 31 194043 killed in train accident at Cuyahoga Falls, OH.JULY 31 1956Great Northern ends Cascade electrification.JULY 31 1971Monon merged into Louisville & Nashville.
..JULY 30 1902The largest locomotive in the world is wrecked at Denver, Colorado. (Can anyone give more info on this?)
JULY 28 1871Tracklaying for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway begins in Denver.
JULY 27 1844Long Island Railroad opens first section of track to Greenport.JULY 27 1959First revenue train on Southern Pacific's Great Salt Lake Fill.
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