SEPTEMBER 07, 1866
Matthias Baldwin, founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, dies. His funeral is attended by most of Philadelphia's civic and political leaders.
SEPTEMBER 07, 1891
On this date, Louisville Union Station opened. It was home to the Louisville & Nashville, Pennsylvania and the Indianapolis & Louisville.
SEPTEMBER 07, 1958
In Washington, D.C., the Eckington-Mt. Rainier-Branchville street car line was abandoned.
SEPTEMBER 07, 1969
Union Pacific's City of Portland and City of Denver join combined City of Los Angeles-San Francisco-Kansas City east of Green River, Wyoming.
SEPTEMBER 07, 1980
Auto-Train files for bankruptcy.
SEPTEMBER 07, 1999
This was the last day of operations for the National Railways of Mexico (NdeM). All railroads in Mexico are again privately owned and operated.
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SEPTEMBER 08, 1883
A last spike ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana marks the completion of the Northern Pacific from St. Paul, Minnesota to Tacoma, Washington on the Columbia River. The first train from the East arrives in Portland, Oregon on September 11th.
SEPTEMBER 08, 1899
In the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the schooner Keewaydin arrived in Halifax from New York with a cargo of steel rails for the "Midland road". This was the Midland Railroad, then under construction, from Truro through South Maitland, Kennetcook, and Stanley to Windsor.
SEPTEMBER 08, 1900
A hurricane and a 15-foot storm surge sweep over Galveston Island, Texas, killing more than 6,000 people, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. The railroad bridge to the mainland was destroyed. On October 3rd, 1867 a hurricane had destroyed the Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad bridge across Galveston Bay.
SEPTEMBER 08, 1910
Long Island Railroad begins using the new Pennsylvania Station in New York via new East River tunnels. The Pennsylvania Railroad begins using new Hudson River tunnels and electric locomotives to enter the station starting November 27th. PRR trains switch from electric to steam power at a place in Newark Meadows called Manhattan Transfer.
SEPTEMBER 08, 1942
Representatives of Southern Pacific and Union Pacific meet at Promontory, Utah to mark the abandonment of this portion of the original transcontinental line. Bypassed by the Lucin Cutoff, it's rails and spikes now become scrap metal for the war effort.
SEPTEMBER 08, 1987
MidSouth purchases the 40-mile North Louisiana & Gulf Railroad.
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I did not know tacoma was on the Columbia River??????
blue streak 1CANADIANPACIFIC2816 Tacoma, Washington on the Columbia River I did not know tacoma was on the Columbia River??????
From Arcamax "History and Quotes" for 8 Sep. 2009.
Country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers, The Singing Brakeman, in 1897
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
SEPTEMBER 09, 1909
Railroad empire builder Edward Henry Harriman dies.
SEPTEMBER 09, 1910
Pere Marquette Railroad car ferry Pere Marquette 18 sinks twenty miles off Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sister ship 17 rescues 35, but 29 lives were lost in this disaster.
SEPTEMBER 09, 1929
The first air-conditioned Pullman cars go into service between Chicago and Los Angeles.
SEPTEMBER 09, 1933
Service comes to an end on Oregon Electric's Corvallis branch.
SEPTEMBER 09, 1985
In the Canadian province of Ontario, Canadian Pacific opens a bridge over the Lievre River at Buckingham to give direct access to Erco. The official opening ceremony took place on October 2-3 with the attendance of three Canadian Pacific business cars, Lacombe, Ontario and #91.
SEPTEMBER 09, 1997
In the Canadian province of Ontario, rail service is restored to the E.B. Eddy paper mill in Hull. Some four years earlier, changes in the mill eliminated the need for rail service and all plant trackage and the connection to the Canadian Pacific Waltham subdivision, which had used the former Hull Electric Railway right-of-way, trackage and bridge over the Lachute subdivision at Hull were removed. As the Waltham subdivision had also been lifted, access to the plant was regained by means of a spur connecting with the Lachute subdivision at the north end of the Prince of Wales Bridge. One storage siding was built on the site of the former six track yard and two delivery sidings were built, one interior, and one exterior, on the mill site west of the intersection of Tache Boulevard and Montcalm Street. On September 9th, buisness car "Lacombe" became the first railborne visitor to the new trackage.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1860
The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, travels between Toronto and Collingwood, Ontario and return. The special train of two coaches and an open observation car, was hauled by a Northern Railway 4-4-0, "Cumberland".
SEPTEMBER 10, 1865
California Pacific incorporated. Initially conceived as a western link for the transcontinental railroad, connecting Sacramento with San Francisco via Vallejo, it later developed transcontinental aspirations of it's own.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1971
Pacific Great Eastern Railway's extension from Fort St. John to Fort Nelson, British Columbia is opened for traffic.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1995
The Broadway Limited is discontinued after 93 years of service.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1856
Prominent citizens and the press ride a special train over the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad from Hopefield, Arkansas across the Mississippi River from Memphis, to the end of track about ten miles west. This would be the first railroad in Arkansas.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1897
This date marks the completion of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad between Kansas City and Port Arthur, Texas. The newly-developed ocean port on Lake Sabine is named for railroad president Arthur Stillwell.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1915
Sir William Van Horne, a major playor in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, died.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1916
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the 5,000 ton center section of the Quebec Cantilever Bridge falls into the St. Lawrence River while being lifted into place between two completed sections. Eleven men would die in this, the second major mishap of this project.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1950
Pennsylvania Railroad's Spirit of St. Louis rams a stalled troop train near West Lafayette, Ohio, killing 33 members of an artillery battalion from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1951
The production of diesel locomotives comes to an end at Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton's facility in Lima, Ohio. The last locomotive was a center-cab unit which went to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1972
Regular service begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
SEPTEMBER 11, 1996
Union Pacific purchases the Southern Pacific, unifying the original transcontinental partners, and reassembling Harriman's Associated Lines on an even grander scale. This functionally combines the turn-of-the-century Harriman Lines (UP and SP) and Gould Lines (MP, D&RGW, Western Pacific), plus more.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1842
This date marks the start of service between Boston and Albany on the Western Railroad.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1850
The first rails were laid for the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad (predecessor to the Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific).
SEPTEMBER 12, 1952
Compartmentalized freight cars developed by the Pullman Standard Car Company and the Western Pacific Railroad are placed in service between Chicago and San Francisco.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1996
Rocky Mountain Railtours runs the longest passenger train in Canadian history. Three GP40 locomotives hauled 34 cars from Vancouver to Kamloops.
FROM WHAS-11.COM WEBSITE: For September 12th:
CANADIANPACIFIC2816SEPTEMBER 11, 1916In the Canadian province of Ontario, the 5,000 ton center section of the Quebec Cantilever Bridge falls into the St. Lawrence River while being lifted into place between two completed sections. Eleven men would die in this, the second major mishap of this project.
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From Arcamax History & Quotes, Birthdays:
Railroad magnate James Jerome "J.J." Hill in 1838
From Arcamax History & Quotes:
On September 27, 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened, becoming the first permanent steam locomotive railway.
September 29, 1972: The state of Vermont is put on the Amtrak map by revival of the Montrealer.
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FROM ARCAMAX HISTORY & QUOTES:
October 9, 2009:
In 1995, an Amtrak passenger train derailed in a remote area of Arizona southwest of Phoenix, killing one person and injuring about 100 others in apparent track sabotage.
From: Railwaystation.com
October, 11, 1962
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 # 641 makes last run of steam on a regular daily service standard gauge railroad, Leadville to Climax, Colorado.
OCTOBER 12 1934 Association of American Railroads formed. OCTOBER 12 1954 Last eight of Erie Railroad's onetime fleet of 1545 steam locomotives make their last journey to the railroad's Chicago scrap yard. OCTOBER 12 1986 A once-in-100-years flood knocks out two major Alaska Railroad bridges and several smaller bridges and covers the tracks in mud, causing nearly $3 million in damage. Service is restored within 13 days.
And from Arcamax History & Quotes Birthdays for Oct. 12:
Elmer Sperry, who devised practical uses for the gyroscope, in 1860 (He also invented the Sperry Railcar)
OCTOBER 16 1859 Abolitionist, John Brown attacks U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry and B & O's Wheeling to Baltimore Express. OCTOBER 16 1944 Z-8 #910 makes its initial run, Portland, OR to Wishram, WA (SP&S Ry.) OCTOBER 16 1950 Last narrow gauge train on the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina (Tweetsie) OCTOBER 16 1964 Norfolk & Western merges Nickel Plate Road. OCTOBER 16 1973 Ann Arbor Railroad Declares bankruptcy.
OCTOBER 18 1886 Largest one-day conversion of narrow gauge to standard gauge. 2000 men between 5 A.M. and 6 P.M. converted 418 miles of track on the Cotton Belt, then known as the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, from Bird's Point, MO to Texarkana, AR OCTOBER 18 1947 The inaugural run of the Alaska Railroad Aurora, a blue and gold steamliner, marks upgraded passenger service between Anchorage and Fairbanks. OCTOBER 18 1956 Last trolley run in Brooklyn. OCTOBER 18 1961 GM rolls out first GP-30 diesel-electric locomotive.
OCTOBER 20 1940 First issue of Trains published. OCTOBER 20 1955 Last SP&S steam engine leaves Hillyard (Spokane, WA) OCTOBER 20 1969 Alco leaves the locomotive business. OCTOBER 20 1980 645-mile former Rock Island Herington, Kansas City-Dallas line is sold to Katy subsidiary Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas. OCTOBER 20 1980 965-mile former Rock Island Kansas City-Tucumcari, New Mexico line is sold to Southern Pacific's Cotton Belt.
OCTOBER 26 1906 Oregon Electric purchases Willamette Valley Traction OCTOBER 26 1968 Penn Central vacates Chicago's La Salle Street Station in favor of Union Station. OCTOBER 26 1985 First run for Burlington Northern's propane-fueled GP-9.
Does anyone have anything else for this date in Railroad History?
On October 27, 1904, the first New York City Subway line opened.
NOVEMBER 02 1969 Last run for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle.
NOVEMBER 03 1908 Cow Creek viaduct completed (SP&S Ry.) NOVEMBER 03 1909 Oregon Trunk Railway (OT) incorporated NOVEMBER 03 1969 Last Kansas City Southern Southern Belles arrive in Kansas City and New Orleans.
NOVEMBER 08 1905
Union Pacific's Chicago to San Francisco Overland Limited gets electric lighting. NOVEMBER 08 1969
The last train to depart Chicago's Grand Central Station, C&O #8, leaves for Grand Rapids.
NOVEMBER 12 1831 The John Bull, the oldest operable steam engine in the US, is placed in regular service on the Camden & Amboy RR. NOVEMBER 12 1965 Heaviest single piece of freight carried by rail, a 549.2 tons hydrocraker reactor hauled from Birmingham, Alabama to Toledo, Ohio.
NOVEMBER 13 1906
New York Central's New York electrification begins.
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