March 1. 1910. Avalanch sweeps two passenger trains into valley at Wellington WA killing 96 or so passengers and railroad employees.
Mac
This Day in History, February 28
On February 28th, 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered.
In 1992, a bomb blamed on the IRA ripped through a London railway station, injuring at least 30 people and shutting down the British capital's rail and subway system.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for February 24:
On February 24th, 1839, William Otis received a patent for his steam shovel.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for February 18:
In 2003, around 200 people died and many more were hurt in a South Korea subway fire set by a man authorities say apparently was upset at his doctors.
In 2004, 40 chemical and fuel-laden runaway rail cars derailed in northeastern Iran, producing a massive explosion that killed at least 265 people.
In 2007, an explosion on a train in northern India and the resulting fire killed 66 people and injured more than 50 others. India's railways minister called it an act of terrorism.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for February 11th:
In 1941, Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo awarded the first gold record, given for sales of 1 million copies. (love that song, and haven't heard for a while.)
From Arcamax History & Quotes:
February 3:
In 2005, more than 50 people died when a train rammed a trailer carrying a wedding party at a railroad crossing in India.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for 12/27:
In 2010, a blizzard cut power to a New York subway, trapping more than 500 people aboard a Manhattan train for six hours. They included passengers from Kennedy Airport who had waited hours for flights that were canceled.
Jim, I've no idea. Maybe someone else could enlighten both of us.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for 12/26:
In 1917, the federal government took over operation of U.S. railroads for the duration of World War I.
CW, I wonder where Bernie is today?? Did he ever get a hero medal ?
Jim
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
From Arcamax History & Quotes for December 22:
In 1984, subway vigilante Bernard Goetz shot four would-be hold-up men on a New York City subway. He ended up serving eight months in prison for carrying an illegal weapon but was cleared of assault and attempted murder charges.
December 21st:
In 1994, more than 40 people were injured when an incendiary device exploded on a crowded subway in New York's lower Manhattan. Police arrested one of the burn victims who reportedly was carrying a firebomb that went off.
In 1995, a commuter train rammed the rear of a passenger train in heavy fog near Cairo, Egypt, killing 75 people.
On December 14th, 1896, the Glasgow Underground Railway was opened.
For 12/07 from Arcamax History & Quotes:
1993A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)
November 19, 1991:
A cargo train derailment in central Mexico, killed 70 people and injured 40 more, when the boxcars crushed automobiles on a highway below the tracks.
On October 14, 1832, the first horse-drawn streetcar made its first appearance in New York City.
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
October29,
Also in 2005, a reported 102 people died in a train wreck in southern India, where heavy rains caused major flooding.
On October 27th, 1904, the first New York City Subway line opened.
October 12, 2010:
A collision between a train and a bus in central Ukraine, killed at least 40 people and injured a dozen others.
From Arcamax History & Quotes for Sunday, October 9
October 9, 1995
An Amtrak passenger train derailed in a remote area of Arizona, southwest of Phoenix, killing one person and injuring about 100 others, in an apparant track sabbotage.
October 4:
In 1883, the Orient Express train made its first run.
October 1st:
In 2010, at least 36 people were reported killed and dozens more injured when a train from Jakarta slammed into a stationary train in pre-dawn darkness near the Indonesian city of Pemalang in central Java. Officials said a signal error was the most likely cause.
On September 27th, 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened, becoming the first permanent steam locomotive railway.
In 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train.
From WHAS 11.com Today in History:
September 20:
1873Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
Sept 15, 1958: Two engines and and three cars of a Jersey Central commuter train enroute to Jersey City, NJ plunged through the open Newark Bay drawbridge between Elizabethport and Bayonne, NJ.
Forty three people were killed.
Thank you, dmoore, for catching my error! You are correct, supposed to read 1838!!
cherokee woman From Arcamax History & Quotes: September 16, 1938: Railroad magnate James Jerome (JJ) Hill was born.
September 16, 1938:
Railroad magnate James Jerome (JJ) Hill was born.
Presume that should be 1838.
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