January 01, 1839
The New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Company is opened between New Brunswick and Trenton, New Jersey.
January 01, 1872
Denver & Rio Grande Railway begins service between Denver and Colorado Springs.
January 01, 1881
Denver & Rio Grande Railway reaches Chama, New Mexico.
January 01, 1908
Oregon Electric (OE) opened Portland, OR to Salem, OR.
January 01, 1946
Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast merged into Atlantic Coast Line.
January 01, 1948
14 killed in train accident at Syracuse, MO.
January 01, 1952
First gas- turbine- electric locomotive in the U.S. begins service on the Union Pacific.
January 01, 1953
J.C. Moore elected Vice President of the SP&S Railway.
January 01, 1966
Transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway for 12 days.
January 01, 1971
The Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad merges with the Frisco.
January 01, 1983
Fort Worth & Denver Railroad merged into Burlington Northern.
January 01, 1986
Soo Line merges with the Milwaukee Road. (My understanding of this is that the Soo Line acquired some of what was left of the Milwaukee Road after the Milwaukee had gone bankrupt. If I am wrong, I would appreciate someone out there telling me so.)
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January 02, 1849
Chicago & Eastern Illinois predecessor, Evansville & Illinois chartered.
January 02, 1907
33 killed in train accident at Volland, Kansas.
January 03, 1965
The state of Maine loses passenger train connection with the rest of the U.S. when the Boston & Maine ends it's Boston to Portland trains.
January 03, 1967
Chesapeake & Ohio acquires Chicago, South Shore & South Bend.
January 03, 1986
The Skytrain commences operation between Vancouver and New Westminster, British Columbia.
January 04, 1831
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad makes first bid for a locomotive of American manufacture by placing advertisements in the Baltimore American.
January 04, 1877
Railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt dies at the age of 83. He was probably the richest man in the world at that time.
January 04, 1955
Last steam run on the Milwaukee Road when 2-8-4 no. 239 arrives in St. Paul.
January 04, 1962
1st automated subway train New York City.
January 04, 1970
Last run for Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities.
January 04, 1987
16 are killed when Amtrak's northbound Colonial collides with errant Conrail diesels which had run through a stop signal and a switch at Chase, Maryland.
January 05, 1885
The Long Island Railroad creates the first Piggyback service with a train consisting of flatcars for carrying farmer's wagons and horses and a coach for teamsters.
January 05, 1893
The Great Northern Railroad completed it's line from the Great Lakes to Everett, Washington.
January 05, 1905
Baltimore & Ohio introduces first electric freight locomotive.
January 05, 1912
Celilo Bridge completed (SP&S Ry).
January 05, 1956
General Motors introduces the Aerotrain.
January 05, 1984
Delaware & Hudson becomes part of Guilford Transportation Industries.
January 06, 1866
First robbery of a train enroute. $500,000 in bonds, specie and government securities were taken from an Adams Express company safe on the New Haven Railroad.
January 06, 1893
Great Northern Railway completes transcontinental route at Everett, Washington.
January 06, 1936
Great Northern Steamship Co. (GNPSS) dissolved.
January 06, 1985
Federal Railroad Administration turns over ownership of the Alaska Railroad to the state of Alaska.
January 07, 1830
First commercial railroad service begins with horse drawn carriages in Baltimore, on the first stretch of track on the Baltimore & Ohio RR.
January 07, 1912
Oregon Trunk (OT) through service Wishram, OR to Bend, OR initiated.
January 07, 1946
Baltimore & Ohio shifts passenger trains from Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot to Michigan Central Station.
January 6th, 2005
NS train 192 hits parked train P22 in Granitville,SC. 9 people died that day including 192's engineer. The cause of the wreck was a open switch which was left by P22.
All three engines are still parked in Augusta for unknown reasons.
NS 4622, NS 6593, and NS 6653.
kevin
oskar wrote: All three engines are still parked in Augusta for unknown reasons.NS 4622, NS 6593, and NS 6653. kevin
Are they visual from a public place?
They are but its not a vantage point to take pictures. Trees are in the way of the two SD60's when I saw them 12/29/06. The GP59 is feet from them but I don't belive you can see them as good as the SD60's. You can only get them on their sides.
They can be seen off of New Savanna Road which is of Laney Walker Blvd. The engines should be to your right look through the trees and you should see 2 engines one with a hood door opened headed elephant style and then you found 6593 and 6653.
January 08, 1863
Central Pacific Railroad begins construction.
January 08, 1954
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal opens.
On January 8, 1991, one person was killed and 248 injured, when a London commuter train crashed into the buffers at a station. (From bellsouth.net "On This Date in History".)
January 09, 1990
Gateway Western buys Chicago, Missouri & Western's Kansas City-St. Louis line.
January 10, 1853
First meals to be served on a train.
January 10, 1911
United Railways (UR) opened Burlington, Oregon to North Plains, Oregon.
January 10, 1945
Los Angeles Railway streetcar lines close.
January 10, 1989
Fire destroys Durango & Silverton roundhouse and damages it's six 2-8-2's.
January 11, 1899
The Colorado & Southern Railway begins operation. Predecessors are the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway (formerly the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad) and the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway.
January 12, 1853
After 25 years, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad reaches the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia.
January 12, 1877
US railroad builders strike against wage reductions.
January 12, 1883
Southern Pacific Railroad completes New Orleans to California route near Pecos River in Texas.
January 12, 1899
The Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad becomes part of the Colorado & Southern Railroad.
January 12, 1919
21 killed in train accident at South Byron, New York.
January 12, 1929
Great Northern's 7 mile, 1397 yard Cascade Tunnel opens in Washington state. It is the longest tunnel in North America.
Seatrain's railroad cars on ships begin service between New Orleans and Havana.
January 12, 1962
Merger of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad proposed.
January 12, 1977
VIA Rail Canada created as Canadian National subsidiary.
January 13, 1857
Patent #16,381 is issued to Thaddeus Fairbanks for the first railway track scale.
January 14, 1878
The Supreme Court rules that states cannot forbid racial segregation on public transportation vehicles. The court held that segregation is not a matter for states to decide and that it places a burden on interstate commerce.
January 14, 1981
President Reagan signs into law legislation authorizing transfer of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska.
January 15, 1831
First American built locomotive to pull a passenger train, the Best Friend of Charelston, runs from Charelston to Hamburg, South Carolina. The train also provided the first recorded railroad honeymoon trip - Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Pierson of Ramapo, New York.
January 15, 1908
Portland & Seattle (P&S) opens Cliffs, Washington to Lyle, Washington.
January 15, 1952
Last passenger run on the Astoria Line (SP&S Ry).
January 15, 1953
Pennsylvania's GG1 no. 4876 ends up in the Washington Union Station basement when the Federal Express runs away.
January 15, 1990
VIA cuts half of it's passenger network. Last run for the Canadian.
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM COURIER-JOURNAL, IN LOU., KY PAPER FOR TODAY, 1/15/07:
20 years ago (1987), CSX announced plans to close it's Louisville locomotive repair shops, eliminating 800 jobs. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's South Louisville Shops opened in 1905 on 126 acres south of Eastern Parkway, between Floyd and Third streets. Regardless of where the locomotives were built, they and the cars they pulled were repaired and refurbished at the South Louisville Shops. By 1950, the shops' 4,000 employees were working on an average of 200 steam locomotives, 100 passenger cars, 6,000 freight cars and 160 cabooses each year. In 1980 Seaboard merged with the Chessie System into CSX Corp., taking the L&N name with it.
This is the area which is now Papa Johns' Cardinal Stadium.
January 16, 1906
United Railways incorporated.
January 16, 1952
After three days of digging, passengers on the bound City of San Francisco were rescued from Yuba Gap where they had been snowbound by the worst storm to hit the Sierras in many years. Recovery of the engines and passenger cars required three more days.
January 16, 1969
Penn Central begins Metroliner service in the Northeast Corridor.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Ray probably couldn't agree with you more!
I think he's doing a fine job.
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)
January 17, 1871
Andrew Hallidie issued patent # 110, 971 for a design used in the first commercially successful cable car.
January 17, 1907
Cold and desperate citizens of Adams, Oregon, hold up a train for fuel.
January 17, 1917
Last train to run on the 2 foot gauge Gilpin Tramway in Colorado.
January 17, 1968
First run of Santa Fe's Super C, a hotshot all-TOFC and container train on 34 1/2 hour schedule from Chicago to Los Angeles.
January 17, 1981
Union Pacific's 4-6-6-4 Challenger is fired up for the first time in 22 years.
January 18, 1908
Oregon Electric Railway (OE) begins service.
January 18, 1978
Budd introduces SPV2000 as successor to the RDC self-propelled car.
January 18, 1989
The overnight passenger train between Ottawa and Toronto is discontinued.
FROM ARCAMAX HISTORY AND QUOTES: (For January 18, 2007)
In 1993, seven people were killed and nearly 70 more injured, when two commuter trains collided on a bridge, in Gary, Ind.
January 19, 1907
29 killed in train accident at Fowler, Indiana.
January 19, 1938
GM begins mass production of diesel engines.
January 19, 1944
Railroads are returned to private ownership after wage dispute settled.
January 20, 1830
The first railroad in the Mississippi Valley, the Ponchartrain Railroad, is chartered to extend from Elysian Fields Street, New Orleans, to Milneburg on on the shore of Lake Ponchartrain.
January 20, 1885
Patent # 310,966 issued to La Marcus Adna Thompson of the L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway Company in Coney Island, New York for a roller-coaster structure.
January 20, 1957
L.W. Albertson succeeds J.C. Moore as Vice-President of the S.P.&S. Railway.
January 21, 1941
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad receives first of two Electroliners.
January 21, 1963
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad ceases operation.
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