NOVEMBER 05, 1889
Rio Grande Southern Railroad is incorporated.
NOVEMBER 05, 1959
Canadian National opens a new international marshalling yard at Sarnia, Ontario.
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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 the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen against the Belt Railway of Chicago comes to an end.
NOVEMBER 07, 1835
Construction begins on the Erie Railroad.
NOVEMBER 07, 1885
The Canadian Pacific Railway completes the first transcontinental route across Canada. The last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia in the Eagle Pass. William Van Horne makes his famous fifteen word speech, "All I can say is that the work has been well done in every way."
NOVEMBER 07, 1909
24 hour train service between New York and St. Louis begins.
NOVEMBER 07, 1925
The bridge across the Second Narrows, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia is opened.
NOVEMBER 07, 1970 (?)
The second longest tunnel in the U.S., the 7 mile, 1327 yard Flathead tunnel opens on the Great Northern.
I've come up with some additional information pertaining to the Flathead tunnel and it is interesting.
The Flathead tunnel is a 7 mile (11km) single track railroad tunnel through the Rocky Mountains approximately 42 miles (67 km) to the west of Whitefish, Montana. It is the second longest tunnel in the United States. The construction of Libby Dam required the relocation of 60 miles of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks and the building of a new tunnel which opened in 1970. The east portal has a door that can be closed and fans to ventilate the tunnel. It is currently part of the BNSF Railway system and is used by Amtrak's Empire Builder.
NOVEMBER 08, 1885
A Canadian Pacific special train arrives at Port Moody, British Columbia at Pacific Tidewater, the first railway train to ever cross the entire length of Canada from coast to coast.
NOVEMBER 08, 1905
Union Pacific's Chicago to San Francisco Overland Limited receives electric lighting.
NOVEMBER 08, 1969
The last train to depart Chicago's Grand Central Station, C&O #8, leaves for Grand Rapids.
NOVEMBER 08, 1985
Downtown passenger service to Quebec is restored with the reopening of Palais station.
NOVEMBER 09, 1833
Twelve passengers on the Camden & Amboy Railroad are injured in the first passenger train accident in the United States.
NOVEMBER 09, 1933
Canadian National opens it's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba.
NOVEMBER 09, 1953
Canadian National opens it's line between Lynn Lake and Sherridon, Manitoba.
NOVEMBER 09, 1998
St. Thomas and Eastern Railway, a division of Trillium Rail, commences operation over the former Canadian National Cayuga Spur between St. Thomas and Delhi, Ontario.
NOVEMBER 10, 1887
The Canada Atlantic Railway commences heating passenger cars with steam from the locomotive thus eliminating the danger of fire from stoves. This is the first such use in Canada. The railway completed the conversion of it's entire passenger fleet in October of 1891 thus becoming the first railway in Canada to use steam exclusively to heat it's passenger rolling stock.
NOVEMBER 10, 1905
Willamette Valley Traction incorporated.
NOVEMBER 10, 1952
The Supreme Court upholds a decision barring segregation on interstate railroads.
NOVEMBER 10, 1979
CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ontario. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days. The Grange Commisson's report on the accident was publised in December of 1980.
NOVEMBER 11, 1911
Canadian Pacific opens a second track between Smiths Falls and Glen Tay, Ontario.
NOVEMBER 11, 1933
England's Royal Scott locomotive is exhibited at Kingston and Brockville, Ontario on it's return to Montreal.
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.
The Pennsylvania Railroad runs a steam locomotive for the last time.
NOVEMBER 11, 1997
Quebec Gatineau Railway takes over operation of the former Canadian Pacific Trois Riviers and Lachute subdivisions between Quebec City and Hull.
With no customers remaining in Ottawa, Canadian Pacific's presence in Ottawa comes to and end with the last train on the SL&H (CP) Prescott subdivison between a point north of Kemptville and Leitrim Road (20.13 miles) on the southern edge of the MacDonald Cartier Airport (Ottawa). This was the first line to enter Ottawa, then Bytown in 1854. The last Canadian Pacific train in Walkley Yard was hauled by two CP C-424 locomotives, 4231 and 4240.
NOVEMBER 12, 1831
The John Bull, the oldest operable steam engine in the United States, is placed in regular service on the Camden & Amboy Railroad.
NOVEMBER 12, 1965
The heaviest single piece of freight carried by rail, a 549.2 Ton hydrocraker reactor is hauled from Birmingham, Alabama to Toledo, Ohio.
NOVEMBER 12, 1975
Canadian National opens a diversion of it's Chalk River subdivision between m. 36.7 and m. 39.9 in connection with a hydro electric scheme. This is known as Waba and the work was funded by the Ontario Government.
NOVEMBER 12, 1986
Canadian National abandons it's Smith Falls subdivision between. m. 34.05 and m. 35.30 in Smiths Falls.
NOVEMBER 13, 1906
New York Central's New York electrification begins.
NOVEMBER 14, 1832
The 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, 1978
The CSX Corporation was formed in Virginia.
NOVEMBER 14, 1981
VIA Rail cuts nearly 20% of it's services.
NOVEMBER 14, 1988
The Department of Transportation announces random drug testing for 90,000 railroad workers.
NOVEMBER 14, 1989
CP Rail commences cabooseless train operations. CN Rail follows with the same action on February 1, 1990.
NOVEMBER 15, 1908
Oregon Electric's Forest Grove branch opened.
NOVEMBER 15, 1910
Penn Station opens in New York City.
NOVEMBER 15, 1920
W.F. Turner becomes President of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle 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 a gas-turbine-electric locomotive.
NOVEMBER 15, 1957
The longest and heaviest train (500 coal cars, 4 miles long, 42,000 tons) was hauled by the Norfolk and Western Railroad between Lager, West Virginia and Portsmouth, Ohio.
NOVEMBER 15, 1965
Canadian National abandons the former Canada Atlantic line from Chaudiere (m. 0.31) to Ottawa West (m. 1.71). Rail service to E.B. Eddy Ottawa Mills had ceased the previous month.
NOVEMBER 15, 1981
Passenger service is discontinued on Canadian Pacific's Lachute subdivision (RDC 6102), and on the Canadian Pacific's M & O subdivision between Rigaud and Ottawa. Temporary end of transcontinental service through Ottawa (with VIA 6537-6614 in both directions). Local service with RDC's was commenced between Ottawa and Sudbury, Ontario.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: NOVEMBER 15, 1957 The longest and heaviest train (500 coal cars, 4 miles long, 42,000 tons) was hauled by the Norfolk and Western Railroad between Lager, West Virginia and Portsmouth, Ohio.
My memory of this event suggests that it may have taken place about ten years later than is shown here. Its point of origin was Iaeger, West Virginia (a N&W division point).
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)
NOVEMBER 16, 1952
The North Coast Limited begins interchange of coach and sleepers with Spokane, Portland & Seattle's trains 1 & 2 at Pasco, Washington.
NOVEMBER 16, 1963
Last run of a mixed train on the 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 U.S., arrives on the Mad River & Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio.
NOVEMBER 17, 1855
The Grand Trunk Railway is opened between Montreal and Brockville, Ottawa.
NOVEMBER 17, 1889
The first daily railroad service to the Pacific Coast, without a change was made between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, and between Chicago and San Francisco, California on the Union Pacific Railroad.
NOVEMBER 17, 1908
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway begins service between Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
NOVEMBER 17, 1938
The Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario. I mention this because Gordon had written "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", "Steel Rail Blues" and a lot of other very good material. Happy Birthday to Gordon Lightfoot!
NOVEMBER 17, 1938The Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario. I mention this because Gordon had written "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", "Steel Rail Blues" and a lot of other very good material. Happy Birthday to Gordon Lightfoot! CANADIANPACIFIC2816
He also wrote the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgarald. I love that song. Mike
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote:NOVEMBER 17, 1837The Sandusky, believed to be the first locomotive equipped with a whistle in the U.S., arrives on the Mad River & Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio.
I LIVE THERE! Mike
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 use in the United States.
NOVEMBER 18, 1889
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: NOVEMBER 18, 1883 Standard time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific) created, abolishing 100 different local times in use in the United States.
In honor of that, I shall endeavor to watch the clock as much as possible today!
On November 19, 1991, a cargo train derailed in central Mexico. 70 people were killed, and 40 more injured, when the boxcars crushed automobiles on a highway below the tracks.
(This came from Arcamax History & Quotes).
NOVEMBER 19, 1891
Granville T. Woods recieves a patent for a third rail to operate electrified railways. This black inventor from Columbus, Ohio dedicated his life to developing a variety of inventions relating to the railroad industry and held more than 60 patents.
NOVEMBER 19, 1957
Canadian National opens it's line from Bartibog to Heath Steele, New Brunswick.
NOVEMBER 19, 1986
Last run for the Chicago & Northwestern's C628's.
NOVEMBER 19, 1995
Canadian National shares begin to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
NOVEMBER 20, 1850
The first train was operated on the Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific.
NOVEMBER 20, 1918
By order in Council P.C. 2854 the management of Canadian Government Railways is entrusted to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Northern Railway Co. On the same day the Government takes over the Canadian Northern Railway and appoints a new Board of Directors.
Canadian Northern Railway is named a constituant company of Canadian National Railways.
NOVEMBER 20, 1961
Union Pacific's 4-8-4 #844 makes it's first post-regular service excursion run.
NOVEMBER 20, 1978
Order R-27957 allows the re-routing of VIA overnight sleeping car trains 48 and 49 between Ottawa and Toronto via Smiths Falls and Brockville instead of via Smiths Falls and direct to Napanee over the Smiths Falls subdivision.
NOVEMBER 21, 1890
The first train was operated on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
NOVEMBER 21, 1950
A head-on collision between a passenger train and a troop train kills 21 on the Canadian National Railway.
NOVEMBER 21, 1980
The St. Louis - San Francisco Railway merges with the Burlington Northern.
FROM "ARCAMAX HISTORY & QUOTES:
In 1950, a train wreck in New York City, killed 79 people. Anyone have any more info about this?!?!
NOVEMBER 22, 1882
The Denver & Rio Grande reaches Grand Junction from Gunnison, Colorado.
NOVEMBER 22, 1950
Two Long Island Railroad commuter trains collide, killing 79 and injuring 352 at Richmond Hill in the borough of Queens, New York.
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, 1915
Canadian Northern Ontario Railway opens from Rideau Junction (Federal) to Pembroke, Ontario.
NOVEMBER 23, 1968
The Denver & Rio Grande Western operates it's last between Durango and Alamosa, Colorado.
NOVEMBER 24, 1905
The Canadian Northern completes tracklaying into Edmonton. The last spike, a silver one, was driven by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
NOVEMBER 24, 1912
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited makes it's first run.
NOVEMBER 24, 2002
The Toronto Transit Commission opens the four mile Sheppard Avenue Subway.
NOVEMBER 25, 1884
The Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company (both later forming Union Pacific's route to the northwest) join rails.
NOVEMBER 25, 1926
Canadian Pacific relocates part of it's Maniwaki subdivision between mile 13.26 and mile 14.6 for a hydro-electric scheme on the Gatineau River. The section between mile 8.12 and mile 12.67 was opened the following day while mile 14.96 to mile 15.28 was onpened on December 3rd.
NOVEMBER 25, 1955
Race segregation is forbidden on trains & buses between US states.
NOVEMBER 26, 1832
America's first streetcar system begins service in New York City from City Hall to 14th Street.
NOVEMBER 26, 1867
The first patent for a refrigerated car is granted to J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan,
cherokee woman wrote: FROM "ARCAMAX HISTORY & QUOTES:In 1950, a train wreck in New York City, killed 79 people. Anyone have any more info about this?!?!
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