December 13, 1913
L,C. Gilman becomes President of SP&S Railway.
December 13, 1946
19 killed in train accident at Guthrie, Ohio.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
December 12, 1906
James J. Hill announces retirement from railroad business.
December 12, 1968
Canadian National begins Turboliner service for Montreal-Toronto.
December 12, 1988
New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line).
December 12, 1989
First revenue trains run through the CP Rail 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel. This is the longenst rail tunnel in the Americas.
December 11, 1887
Operations begin on Colorado's 2-foot gauge Gilpin Tramway.
December 11, 1905
Ground broken for Willamette Valley Traction Co.
December 10, 1852
The Pennsylvania RR's tracks reached the Ohio River at Pittsburgh via the famous Horseshoe Curve.
December 10, 1858
Pennsylvania Railroad connects Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
December 10, 1970
500,000 railroad workers begin a nationwide walkout. Within hours President Nixon signs a bill providing a 13.5% wage increase and postponing the strike for 80 days.
December 09, 1852
The Pacific makes the first demonstration run west of the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to Cheltenham, a distance of five miles.
December 09, 1885
The Farmer's Railway, Navigation & Steamboat Portage Company (TFRN&SP) is incorporated in Washington Territory. Their goal was to build a railroad around the many rapids on the Columbia River between The Dalles and Celilo Falls. The line would be used to transport steamboat and barge cargoes around the rapids.
December 09, 1988
Fox River Valley Railroad begins operating on 208 miles of ex-Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
December 08, 1874
Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie, Kansas.
December 07, 1891
Passenger service begins on the first international tunnel, under the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
December 07, 1941
New York Central streamlines Empire State Express with 32 new cars from Budd.
JSGreen wrote: CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: December 06, 1971Auto-Train begins daily service between Lotton, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., and Sanford, Florida. The train transports 100 cars and 400 people.CANADIANPACIFIC2816 I believe that's "Lorton". Va.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: December 06, 1971Auto-Train begins daily service between Lotton, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., and Sanford, Florida. The train transports 100 cars and 400 people.CANADIANPACIFIC2816
December 06, 1971
Auto-Train begins daily service between Lotton, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., and Sanford, Florida. The train transports 100 cars and 400 people.
I believe that's "Lorton". Va.
I had a feeling that there was something wrong with this one, but I couln't figure out what it was. Thanks for correcting me on this one, I believe someone else had already pointed this out to me in regards to an earlier post.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote:December 06, 1971Auto-Train begins daily service between Lotton, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., and Sanford, Florida. The train transports 100 cars and 400 people.CANADIANPACIFIC2816
December 06, 1915
Connought tunnel on the Canadian Pacific Railway opens beneath Mount McDonald. For 70 years, the five mile-mile tunnel was Canada's longest.
December 06, 1968
Last steam revenue run outside of the Silverton branch for the D&RGW, Durango to Alamosa.
Auto-Train begins daily service between Lorton, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., and Sanford, Florida. The train transports 100 cars and 400 people.
December 05, 1883
The Rock Island, Milwaukee Road and Union Pacific railroads make an agreement for interchange of trafic at Omaha.
December 05, 1968
Last Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge operation west out of Alamosa.
December 04, 1867
The Grangers, a secret order of farmers, is founded in Washington, D.C. It seeks to control railroad rates and middlemen.
December 04, 1967
Kansas City Southern tells ICC it plans to quit passenger business.
December 03, 1863
Ground breaking for the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha, Nebraska.
December 03, 1967
The last Twentieth Centrury Limited arrives at Chicago's LaSalle Street Station.
December 02, 1856
First patent issued for a sleeping car.
December 02, 1892
Railroad financier, Jay Gould dies.
December 02, 1926
Cleveland Railway Company puts first all aluminum street car in service.
December 02, 1980
Pullman Company is dissolved.
December 01, 1852
The Pacific becomes the first steam engine to operate west of the Mississippi River when it made it's first run for the Pacicic of Missouri RR.
December 01, 1884
The Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co (later forming the Union Pacific's route to the northwest) officially open.
December 01, 1903
First Western film, The Great Train Robbery, is released.
December 01, 1909
G.B. French becomes President of the SP&S Ry.
December 01, 1955
The first remote control railroad passenger car is tested on the New York, New Haven & Harford Railroad between New Rochelle and Rye, N.Y.
December 01, 1959
The Norfolk & Western acquires the Virginian.
November 30, 1944
United Railways disolved
November 30, 1959
Passenger service ends on the Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern Railroad).
November 30, 1968
Clinchfield 4-4-0 #1 restored to service.
cherokee woman wrote:On November 22, 1950, a train wreck in New York City,killed 79 people. Does anyone have any information onthis? This is all that was on ArcaMax History & Quotes.
I believe this happened on the LIRR. A train stopped with a mechanical problem. The "rear brakeman" walked back with a lantern to protect the train. He then mistakingly thought the problem was fixed. He reboarded and signaled he was ready. The problem was not fixed and the train did not move. Just then an express train out to Babylon, came around a curve. That motorman saw a "clear" signal in the distance but did not see the stalled train markers and did not pass over a torpedo.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: November 29, 1954 First Budd dome cars enter service, connecting with the North Coast Limited (SP&S Ry). CANADIANPACIFIC2816
November 29, 1954
First Budd dome cars enter service, connecting with the North Coast Limited (SP&S Ry).
I know of a lot of dome cars built by Budd prior to 1954. Perhaps these were SP&S' first dome cars.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: November 27, 1873 The Boston & Maine RR makes the first breakthrough in construction of it's tunnel under Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts. CANADIANPACIFIC2816
November 27, 1873
The Boston & Maine RR makes the first breakthrough in construction of it's tunnel under Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts.
The Hoosac Tunnel was actually built by the Troy and Greenfield Railroad which was owned and financed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Troy and Greenfield was sold to the Fitchburg Railroad several years after the completion of the Hoosac Tunnel. The Boston & Maine eventually leased the Fitchburg in 1900 and later merged it.
November 29, 1870
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe signs contracts to build the railroad from Atchison to Topeka, Kansas.
November 28, 1877
The first two foot gauge railroad in the U.S., the Bedford & Billerica Railroad, opens.
November 27, 1910
New York's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal.
November 27, 1957
Steam operations end on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
November 27, 1964
Pennsylvania Railroad ends Pittsburgh commuter service.
November 26, 1867
The first patent for a refrigerated car is granted to J.B. Sutherland, of Detroit, Michigan.
November 25, 1884
The Oregon Shortline and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company (later forming Union Pacific's route to the northwest), join rails.
November 25, 1955
Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between U.S. states.
November 24, 1912
First run for Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited.
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 22, 1882
Denver & Rio Grande reaches Grand Junction from Gunnison, Colorado.
November 22, 1950
Two Long Island commuter trains collide, killing 79 and injuring 352 at Richmond Hill, in the Borough of Queens, NY.
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