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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, December 24, 2009 5:14 AM

From Arcamax History & Quotes:

Birthdays on December 24th:

- Composer Harry Warren ( Lullaby of Broadway, Chattanooga Choo Choo ) in 1893 was born.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, December 14, 2009 6:25 AM

FROM ARCAMAX HISTORY & QUOTES:

On December 14th, 1896, the Glasgow Underground Railway was opened.

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 DECEMBER 14 1894
Eugene Debs is sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the Pullman strike.

DECEMBER 14 1934
The first streamlined steam locomotive, the Commodore Vanderbilt, is placed in service on the New York Central.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:06 AM

 From Arcamax History & Quotes:

In 1832, the first streetcar railway in America started public service in New York City from City Hall to 14th Street. The car was pulled by a horse and the fare was 12 1/2 cents. 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, November 23, 2009 5:58 AM

NOVEMBER 23 1898
Andrew Jackson Beard receives patent #594,059 for a railway car coupler. Born a slave, Beard worked in a number of occupations, including the railroad industry. This led to his improved railroad coupler, which was credited with preventing many serious injuries among railroad workers.

NOVEMBER 23 1968
Last Durango to Alamosa passenger train on the D&RGW.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:45 PM

NOVEMBER 17 1837
The Sandusky, believed to be the first locomotive equipped with a whistle in the US, arrives on the Mad River & Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio.

NOVEMBER 17 1889
First daily railroad service to the Pacific Coast, without a change was between Chicago and Portland, OR, and between Chicago and San Francisco, Calif., on the Union Pacific Railroad.

NOVEMBER 17 1908
Vancouver, WA to Portland, OR service begins (SP&S Ry.)

Ray:  this one is for especially for you, since you're a really big fan!:

 Balladeer Gordon Lightfoot in 1938 (age 71) (Canadian Railroad Trilogy)

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, November 16, 2009 5:09 AM

 NOVEMBER 15 1908
Oregon Electric Forest Grove branch opened

NOVEMBER 15 1910
Penn Station opens in New York City.

NOVEMBER 15 1920
W.F. Turner becomes President (SP&S Ry.)

NOVEMBER 15 1928
The first rail detector car to be placed in commercial service begins operation on the Wabash Railroad.

NOVEMBER 15 1948
Union Pacific Railroad begins track tests of a gas-turbine-electric locomotive.

NOVEMBER 15 1957
Longest and heaviest train (500 coal cars, 4 miles long, 42,000 tons) hauled by Norfolk and Western Railroad between Iager, West Virginia and Ports

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, November 13, 2009 1:07 PM

NOVEMBER 13 1906


New York Central's New York electrification begins.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:57 AM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:49 AM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:08 AM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, November 2, 2009 3:27 PM

NOVEMBER 02 1969
Last run for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:32 PM

From Arcamax History & Quotes:

On October 27, 1904, the first New York City Subway line opened.

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, October 26, 2009 11:47 AM

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?

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:48 PM
OCTOBER 25 1848
The locomotive Pioneer pull the first westbound train out of Chicago.

OCTOBER 25 1886
In Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the Supreme Court declares that a state cannot regulate even that portion of interstate commerce that takes place within its own borders, removing the States legislative powers over railroads. This led to passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by Congress.

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Posted by BigBoy4023 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:10 PM
October 21,1951 First chartered fantrip by Washington Chapter, NRHS Washington, D.C. to Strasburg, VA via Harpers Ferry on the B&O RR. 1918, October 21 - The Mount Royal Tunnel, Montreal, is opened for regular traffic by the Canadian Northern Railway which commences a through service between Montreal and Toronto via Hawkesbury and Ottawa. The first east bound train left Toronto at 23:00 on October 20 and the first westbound left Montreal at 08:15 on October 21. October 21, 1868. 780th to 800th mile-posts of the Trans Continental Railroad are approved of and accepted.
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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:23 PM

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.

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, October 18, 2009 12:26 PM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, October 16, 2009 4:53 AM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, October 12, 2009 4:51 AM

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)

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Posted by joesap1 on Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:42 PM

 

How come everyone went off detailing history on every day but October11th? He didn't start this thread asking about March?????
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Posted by marthastrainyard on Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:18 PM

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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, October 9, 2009 4:55 PM

 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.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:37 PM

 From Arcamax History & Quotes:

On September 27, 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened, becoming the first permanent steam locomotive railway.

 

 

 

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:49 AM

From Arcamax History & Quotes, Birthdays:

  Railroad magnate James Jerome "J.J." Hill in 1838

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Posted by CShaveRR on Saturday, September 12, 2009 7:50 PM
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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.

For some reason, this one keeps screaming at me...

Seriously, it's Quebec on both sides of the river where this bridge crosses.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:27 PM

FROM WHAS-11.COM WEBSITE:  For September 12th:

2008A Metrolink commuter train struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing 25 people. (Federal investigators have said the Metrolink engineer, Robert Sanchez, had been text-messaging on his cell phone and ran a red light shortly before the crash.)
 

 

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Saturday, September 12, 2009 7:14 AM

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.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Friday, September 11, 2009 8:11 AM

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.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:27 PM

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.

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