From Arcamax History & Quotes:
Birthdays on December 24th:
- Composer Harry Warren ( Lullaby of Broadway, Chattanooga Choo Choo ) in 1893 was born.
FROM ARCAMAX HISTORY & QUOTES:
On December 14th, 1896, the Glasgow Underground Railway was opened.
FROM RAILWAYSTATION.COM:
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
NOVEMBER 13 1906
New York Central's New York electrification begins.
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 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 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 02 1969 Last run for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle.
On October 27, 1904, the first New York City Subway line opened.
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?
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 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 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 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)
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 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.
September 29, 1972: The state of Vermont is put on the Amtrak map by revival of the Montrealer.
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On September 27, 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened, becoming the first permanent steam locomotive railway.
From Arcamax History & Quotes, Birthdays:
Railroad magnate James Jerome "J.J." Hill in 1838
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.
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.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
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FROM WHAS-11.COM WEBSITE: For September 12th:
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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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, 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 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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