JUNE 20 1841Samual F. B. Morse patents the telegraph.JUNE 20 1893The first industrial railroad union, the American Railroad Union, is formed with Eugene Debs elected as its first president.
JUNE 18 1886Transcontinental train service begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway.JUNE 18 1910Congress expands the enforcement and regulatory powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission through the Mann-Elkins Act
JUNE 15 1905First run of the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited.JUNE 15 1927First two-way radio communication between a caboose and locomotive on a moving train is demonstrated by the General Electric Company.JUNE 15 1928First transfer of mail from a dirigible to a train. A mail sack from an Air Corps blimp was lowered by rope to an Illinois Central train near Belleville, Illinois.JUNE 15 1938Twentieth Century Limited uses first fluorescent tail sign.JUNE 15 194519 killed in train accident at Milton, PA.JUNE 15 1973B & O, C & O, and Western Maryland form Chessie System.JUNE 15 1974Final use of Electrification on the Milwaukee Road.
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JUNE 13 1928The first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry is tested for the first time at Beacon, NY. The car made it possible to detect flaws in railroad tracks.JUNE 13 1957Central Railroad of New Jersey retires #1000, the first diesel-electric locomotive.
JUNE 12 1832Tuscumbia Railway begins operations.JUNE 12 1899Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch rob a Union Pacific train of $60,000 near Wilcox Station, Wyoming.JUNE 12 1902Train makes New York to Chicago run in record 20 hours.JUNE 12 1905Pennsylvania Railroad 's Pennsylvania Special (which later became the Broadway Limited) sets speed record of 127.2 MPH. This would stand as the all time record for steam locomotives.
JUNE 11 1864Battle of Central Railroad Trevillian Station, Virginia.JUNE 11 1905Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs).JUNE 11 1940New York City's 9th Avenue El, the oldest elevated railroad in the world, makes its last run. The youngest of New York City's elevated lines, the 2nd Avenue El, also makes its last run.JUNE 11 1980San Francisco's K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service San Francisco.
JUNE 07 1860Trackwork begins on San Francisco's Market Street Railroad.JUNE 07 1870The first patent for an automatic electric block signal system is issued to Thomas S. Hall of Stamford, CT.JUNE 07 1905The first steel mail car is placed into service on the New York, Salamanca & Chicago, Railroad.
JUNE 02 1873Construction begins on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's First cable railroad.JUNE 02 1982Soo Line takes control of Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern.
JUNE 01 1891North America's highest railroad (14,109 ft), the Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway in Colorado, opens.JUNE 01 1898The Erdman Act, which provides for mediation of railroad disputes, is adopted.JUNE 01 1898The first interurban streetcar line, the Union Traction Company, begins operation between Anderson and Alexandria, Indiana.JUNE 01 1908Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. transferred to the SP&SJUNE 01 1947Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad acquires Alton Railroad.JUNE 01 1982The Norfolk & Western Railroad merges with the Southern Railway to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
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