November 03, 1908
Cow Creek viaduct completed (SP&SRy).
November 03, 1909
Oregon Trunk Railway (OT) incorporated.
November 03, 1969
Last Kansas City Southern Southern Belles arrive in Kanas City and New Orleans.
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November 04, 1874
Regular train service begins on the East Broad Top Railroad.
November 05, 1889
Rio Grande Southern Railroad incorporated.
November 06, 1855
68 engineers from 13 states and 45 railroads meet in Baltimore to organize the National Protective Association of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the United States, forming the country's first railroad union.
November 06, 1968
101-day strike by Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen against the Belt Railway of Chicago ends.
November 07, 1835
Construction begins on Erie Railroad.
November 07, 1885
The Canadian Pacific Railrway completes first transcontinental route across Canada. The last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
November 07, 1909
24 hour train service between New York and St. Louis begins.
November 07, 1970
The second longest tunnel in the U.S., the 7 mile 1327 yard Flathead tunnel opens on the Great Northern.
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 09, 1833
Twelve passengers on the Camden & Amboy Railroad are injured in the first passenger train accident in the U.S.
November 10, 1905
Willamette Valley Traction incorporated.
November 10, 1952
Supreme Court upholds decision barring segregation on interstate railroads.
November 11, 1934
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Pioneer Zephyr makes it's first run in scheduled passenger service between Lincoln, Nebraska and Kansas City, Missouri.
November 11, 1957
Demolition begins on San Francisco's cable car barn at California & Hyde.
Last use of a steam locomotive by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
November 12, 1831
The John Bull, the oldest operable steam engine in the U.S., is placed in regular service on the Camden & Amboy Railroad.
November 12, 1965
Heaviest single piece of freight carried by rail, a 549.2 tons hydrocracker reactor hauled from Birmingham, Alabama to Toledo, Ohio.
November 13, 1906
New York Central's New York electrifiation begins.
November 14, 1832
World's first streetcar system opens in New York City with horse drawn cars on tracks on Fourth Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets.
November 14, 1988
Department of Transportation announces random drug testing for 90,000 railroad workers.
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 of the S.P&S Railway.
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 gas-turbine-electric locomotive.
November 15, 1957
Longest and heaviest train (500 coal cars, 4 miles long, 42,000 tons) hauled by Norfolk & Western Railroad between Iaeger, West Virginia and Portsmouth, Ohio. This happened nearly 50 years ago. Does anyone out there know for sure if this record has been broken by another road?? Locomutt has informed me that he was betting that the actual termination point of this train was Williamson, WVa., that is where the N&W's yard was, and not too far from Iaeger. Much of my information is obtained from the web site of railwaystation.com and I suspect that the individual who put this all together did not have his information correct in the first place. So I appreciate it when a few of you guys out there are able to point out the errors in my information.
November 16, 1952
North Coast Limited begins interchange of coach and sleeper with SP&S Nos. 1 & 2 at Pasco, Washington (SP&S Ry).
November 16, 1963
Last run of mixed train on Norfolk & Western's Abingdon branch.
November 16, 1967
Canadian Pacific begins testing Canada's first remote-controlled mid-train diesel locomotives in regular freight service, using new Robot radio-command system.
November 16, 1972
GE introduces E60C electric locomotive.
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 begins (SP&S Ry).
November 17, 1938
Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk artist who had written "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "Steel Rail Blues" was born. Happy Birthday to Gordon Lightfoot!!
November 18, 1881
Construction of the Georgia Pacific Railroad begins.
November 18, 1883
Standard time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific) created, abolishing 100 different local times in the United States.
November 18, 1889
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
November 19, 1891
Granville T. Woods receives patent for a third rail to operate electric railways. This black inventor from Columbus, Ohio dedicated his life to developing a variety of inventions relating the railroad industry, and held more than 60 patents.
November 19, 1986
Last run of the Chicago & Northwestern C628's.
cherokee woman wrote:In 1991, a cargo train derailment in central Mexicokilled 70 people and injured 40 more, when the boxcarscrushed automobiles on a highway below the tracks.
That's interesting, CW. What is your source of information on this one?
November 20, 1850
First train operated on the Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific.
November 20, 1961
Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 makes it's first post-regular service excursion run.
November 21, 1890
First train operated on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
November 21, 1950
Head-on collision between a passenger and a troop train kills 21 on Canadian National.
November 21, 1980
The St. Louis - San Francisco Railway merges with Burlington Northern.
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.
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 24, 1912
First run for Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited.
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 26, 1867
The first patent for a refrigerated car is granted to J.B. Sutherland, of Detroit, Michigan.
November 27, 1873
The Boston & Maine RR makes the first breakthrough in construction of it's tunnel under Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts.
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.
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