OCTOBER 07, 1826
The first American railroad is completed in Quincy, Massachussetts. Horse drawn wagons carrying granite were pulled from a quarry along a 3-mile long track for the Bunker Hill Monument.
OCTOBER 07, 1834
The first American railroad tunnel opens on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
OCTOBER 07, 1948
Passengers aboard the Baltimore & Ohio's Marylander between Washington and New York saw the first practical demonstration of television reception on board a moving train.
OCTOBER 07, 1949
The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio becomes one of the first major railroads to completely dieselize after it's last operation of steam power.
OCTOBER 07, 1960
General Manager N.S. Westergard of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway assumes the additional post of Vice-President.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
OCTOBER 06, 1846
George Westinghouse is born.
OCTOBER 06, 1866
The four Reno brothers, hold up their first train, taking $13,000 from the safes on a moving Ohio & Mississippi train. This was the first robbery of a train in motion.
OCTOBER 06, 1935
Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches.
From Arcamax History & Quotes:
On October 4th, 1883, the first run of the Orient Express took place.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
OCTOBER 04, 1904
The first day of the New York City Subway has 350,000 riders.
OCTOBER 04, 1922
The Canadian National Railway Company becomes a corporate entity.
OCTOBER 04, 1967
The President of the Santa Fe, John Reed, announces that the railroad plans to drop all but a handful of first class passenger trains.
OCTOBER 04, 1969
The last wooden subway cars are retired at Brooklyn, New York.
OCTOBER 04, 1970
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway operates it's first excursion train.
OCTOBER 04, 1980
The Smithsonian reactivates 2-4-0 John Bull.
OCTOBER 04, 1981
Amtrak's Chicago to East Peoria Prairie Marksman is discontinued.
OCTOBER 03, 1837
The Sandusky, the first locomotive to be equipped with a whistle makes it's first run from Patterson to New Brunswick, New Jersey.
OCTOBER 03 - 04 1873
The Grand Trunk Railway converts the gauge of it's line between Stratford and Montreal, 421 miles together with 60 miles of sidings, from 5' 6" to the standard gauge of 4' 8 1/2". The track work was completed in 24 hours and resulted in a 16 hour interruption of the use of the main line.
OCTOBER 03, 1937
Railroad unions win a 44 cent per day pay raise.
OCOBER 03, 1995
Canadian Pacific abandons it's Lachute subdivision east of Thurso, Quebec to St. Augustine, Quebec.
OCTOBER 02, 1872
Colorado's second largest narrow gauge railroad, the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway is incorporated.
OCTOBER 02, 1882
When asked whether he operates his railroads for the public benefit, William Vanderbilt answers: "The public be damned! What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as little consideration possible!"
OCTOBER 02, 1960
Last steam run on the Illinois Central.
OCTOBER 02, 2000
VIA Rail Canada operates the funeral train of the Right Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau from Ottawa to Montreal. It ran as a passenger extra with VIA units 6433 and 6436 and VIA club cars 4007, 4008 and 4009 with dome observation car 8718 "Yoho Park" bringing up the rear. The train left Ottawa at 08:50 and was observed by many people along the route. A CBC helicopter followed overhead. At the request of Mr. Trudeau's family the train slowed down at many towns, villiages and settlements along the route to greet wellwishers.
OCTOBER 01, 1834
A patent is issued to Ross Winans for the first locomotive with six or eight drive wheels.
OCTOBER 01, 1861
Theodore Judah recommends the Donner Pass route for the Central Pacific through the Sierra Navada mountains.
OCTOBER 01, 1931
Cotton Belt's Blue Streak freight service begins.
OCTOBER 01, 1943
T.F. Dixon becomes Vice-President & General Manager of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.
OCTOBER 01, 1964
San Francisoco's cable cars are declared a national landmark.
OCTOBER 01, 1967
The Burlington Route's Fast Mail makes it's final run.
OCTOBER 01, 1979
Amtrak's National Limited, Lone Star, North Coast Hiawatha and Hilltopper are discontinued.
OCTOBER 01, 1988
The Canadian National's narrow guage in Newfoundland makes it's final run.
OCTOBER 01, 1993
The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway commences operation over the former Canadian National line between Sydney and Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.
OCTOBER 01, 1996
The St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with it's Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA. The STLH name was first used about June 01, although the legal entity was not established until October 01.
OCTOBER 01, 1998
Southern Rails Cooperative takes over the operation of Canadian National's Avonlea subdivision from Avonlea to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1877
The Southern Pacific enters Arizona at Yuma, becoming the first railroad in the Territory.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1914
Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company (GNPSS) is incorporated.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
Amtrak's Chicago to Dubuque, Iowa Black Hawk is discontinued.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1849
The New Haven Railroad provides first passenger train service to Peekskill, New York.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1890
Railroads forfeit unused land grants, which had been granted as an inducement for constructing new lines.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1913
Rudolph C K Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, dies at the age of 55.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1957
O-3 #539 moved to Ester Short Park in Vancouver, Washington (SP&S Railway).
SEPTEMBER 29, 1962
The last and final use of steam power was run on the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1967
The last RPO car was run on the Southern Pacific.
The Monon becomes freight only.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1978
VIA Rail Canada takes over Canadian Pacific Railway's passenger operations.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1988
Washington DC's Union Station returns to service as a passenger terminal.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
The town of Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, puchases the former Canadian Pacific Railway's Owen Sound subdivision between mile 2.4 and mile 36.7. The line is managed by Orangeville & Brampton Rail Association Group and Cando Contracting operates the line with running rights to an interchange with the CPR at Streetsville.
Carl,
One of the sources for much of the information that I post in this particular thread is Railwaystation.com. The individual who is responsible for it's content is a gentleman who's name is Ron Paludan. You should be telling this guy that his information is wrong, rather than point a finger at me and tell me that I am wrong or don't know what I am talking about.
Anyway, thanks for setting me straight on this one.
Ray
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: SEPTEMBER 28, 1981Illinois Central becomes the first RoadRailer operator.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1981
Illinois Central becomes the first RoadRailer operator.
Sorry, Ray--the first railroad to use Roadrailers was the C&O, and it was in Michigan in the late 1950s. They were used for mail service on routes out of Grand Rapids to Detroit, Chicago, and Traverse City. IC may have been the first user of the current generation of Roadrailers, but the whole idea was a C&O brainchild.
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)
SEPTEMBER 28, 1929
The Hudson Bay Railway reaches it's northern terminus at Churchill, Manitoba. This was originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of the Canadian Government. It became part of the CN system on September 5, 1951.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1956
The Chesepeake & Ohio completes dieselization.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1996
Iron Road Railways, under the name Quebec Southern Railway commences operation over the following Canadian Pacific lines in Quebec:
*Lennoxville - St. Jean
*Brookville - Wells River (Vermont)
*Farnham - Ste-Rosalie Jct
*Farnham - Stanbridge
SEPTEMBER 27, 1835
Phineas Davis, inventor of the first practical American coal burning locomotive, is killed when his invention, the York, derails.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1856
Grand Trunk Railway opens from Guelph to Stratford.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1864
Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 15 killed.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1890
Farmer's Transportation Company is renamed the Columbia Railway & Navigation Company (C&RN).
SEPTEMBER 27, 1915
The Ottawa and New York Railway is leased to the New York Central Railroad for 21 years. The lease was subsequently renewed for 99 years in 1936. Before this time the line had been leased to the New York Central on an annual basis.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1923
37 are killed in train accident at Casper, Wyoming.
SEPTEMBER 27-28 1959
The last regularly scheduled Canadian Pacific steam powered train departed out of Ottawa Union Station. This was the Waltham mixed with D4 class 4-6-0 No. 425. Unscheduled steam power was used by the Canadian Pacific from time to time after this date, the last steam powered train being freight No. 76 over the M&O subdivision to Montreal on February 22, 1960 with 4-6-2 No. 1262.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1884
The St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway is leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway for 999 years. The CPR had obtained control of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway and commenced integration in 1881.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1905
C.M. Levey becomes President of P&S. (?)
SEPTEMBER 26, 1968
Canadian Pacific opens a Continuous Welded Rail plant in the yard at Smiths Falls using the shells of Fairbanks Morse Erie-built units.
SEPTEMBER 25, 1866
The pop safety valve was patented by George W. Richardson of the Troy & Boston Railroad.
SEPTEMBER 25, 1905
J.H. Hulbert & C.T. Dunbar acquire United Railways for James J. Hill.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
The Quebec Department of Transport purchases most of the historic Turcot Yard in Montreal from Canadian National for $17.8 million.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1869
Railroad speculators Jay Gould and Jim Fisk's attempt to corner the gold market fails.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1894
A Canadian Pacific stock train is derailed at Brittania, Ontario.
From the Ottawa Journal, September 24, 1894:
ONE COW KILLED A SCORE
There was a wholesale butchery of cattle on the C.P.R. track at Britannia at an early hour this morning through the derailing of a stock train from the Northwest.
The train was composed of about twenty-five cars which were filled with more than three hundred head of cattle bound for the English stock market.
As the train was passing through Britannia at twelve minutes past three this morning the engineer noted a cow lying on the crossing only a few yards west of the station. He whistled several times but the animal refused to move, and as the train was travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, it could not be controlled in time to avoid striking the animal.
STRUCK THE ANIMAL
When the engine struck the cow, instead of being knocked off the track, the animal got under the cow catcher. It was dragged along under the engine for about one hundred yards rolled up in a ball. Then the cow got before the trucks of the first car in the train and soon the front trucks of this car were wrenched off, and the car and seventeen others that followed filled with their living freight were thrown into the ditch.
AN APPALLING SCENE
The scene which followed is described by an eye witness as appalling.
The growns of the dying cattle could be heard fully a mile away. So pitiful were their moans that they caused one to shudder. Many of the cattle were killed outright, their bodies being horribly mutilated. Others were pinned beneath the timbers of the wrecked train in dreadful suffering.
The train hands and those in charge of the cattle had nothing else to do than to cut the throats of these animals. Other cattle that were injured beyond hope of recovery were killed on the spot that their flesh might be bought by the city butchers and thus the owner of them recover something that he would not have done had they been left to die.
City butchers informed. Track cleared shortly after one O'clock this afternoon. 255 head of cattle belonging to Mr. Gordon Ironside, Calgary and three carloads of forty-three belonging to Mr. J. McMullen of Prince Albert. McMullen's shipment was on the rear of the train and was not affected. Of the Ironside shipment, twenty-two were killed, four butchered and three disabled. The locomotive, No. 282, was rerailed with jacks.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1904
A head on collision kills 62 and injures 120 in Tennessee.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1874
The first East Broad Top train runs.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1983
The U.S. Railway Association sets the fair market value of the Alaska Railroad at $22.3 million.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988
Boston & Maine's 49-mile Connecticut River Line is transferred to to Amtrak for the restoration of the Montrealer.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1851
Charles Minot, Superintendent of the Erie RR, became the first railroad employee to use a telegraph in the movement of trains. His westbound train pulled into a siding at Turner (now called Harriman), New York to allow an eastbound to pass. The eastbound train was late, so Minot went to the nearest telegraph office to find out where the train was; it hadn't yeat reached Goshen, 13 miles west, so he wired ahead orders for that train to held there for the meet. On returning to his own train, he ordered the engineer to move the train to Goshen, but the engineer refused to take such a risk, so Minot drove the train himself to Goshen where they met the errant eastbound.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1924
In the Canadian province of Ontario: A special train carrying the Prince of Wales from Long Island to Alberta leaves St. Henri and runs to Ottawa East where a 15 minute stop was made in the yard. From there it went on via Pembroke and Brent to North Bay.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1928
In Canada, the last spike is driven by Premier John Bracken on the Canadian National line between Flin Flon and Cranberry Portage. The line had been built in record time by the Dominion Construction Company under it's President, Harry Falconer McLean.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1946
Santa Fe PA A-B-A set number 51 becomes Alco's 75,000th locomotive.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1950
Toledo's new Central Union Terminal is dedicated.
SEPTEMBER 21, 1856
Illinois Central Railroad connects Chicago to Cairo. With 700 miles of track, the railroad is the longest in the country at this point in time.
SEPTEMBER 21, 1905
The Truckee Republican reports the greatest snow shed fire on the Central Pacific in many years. Rail traffic is halted for three days as nearly one mile of the wooden sheds is destroyed.
SEPTEMBER 21, 1982
San Francisco cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1850
President Millard Fillmore signs and Act giving land grands and loads by the Federal Government to railroads.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1853
The first Union passenger station opens in Indianapolis, Indiana.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1873
The New York Stock Exchange is forced to close in an attempt to contain panic resulting from the failure of Jay Cooke & Company.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1943
A fire in the Denver & Salt Lake's Tunnel #20 forces a 72 day detour of traffic to Tennessee Pass.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1984
Singer, songwriter Steve Goodman, who composed the song "City of New Orleans" dies in Seattle.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1986
The Soo Line discontinues hauling passengers in cabooses in Wisconsin and upper Michigan.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1838
The first patent for a railroad brake was issued to Ephraim Morris of Bloomfield, New Jersey.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1839
Official opening of the Albion Mines Railway between Albion Coal Mines and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia using the Timothy Hackworth steam locomotives "Samson", "Hercules" and "John Buddle" imported from England.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1854
Patent #11,699 is issued to Henry B. Myer for a mode of converting the backs of car seats into beds or lounges.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1891
The single track St. Clair tunnel under the St. Clair River is opened by the Grand Trunk Railway. Construction had commenced in 1888 upon this tunnel which connects Sarnia with Port Huron.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1905
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad completes it's Durango to Farmington branch.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1921
Railroad officials are arrested in Chicago for denying workers two hours to vote.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1959
The first steam locomotive builder in the United States, Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns, Ltd., announces it is going out of business.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1982
Streetcars stop running on San Francisco's Market Street after 122 years of service.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1877
The Bass gang pulls off the largest train robbery of that time, taking $60,000 from a Union Pacific train near Big Spring, Nebraska.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1893
The Great Northern Railway completes it's transcontinental route near Everett, Washington.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1936
On a test, a new lightweight streamlined passenger train attains an officially recorded speed of 112.5 mph on the Canadian Pacific Windchester Subdivision near St. Telesphore, Quebec, with 4-4-4 locomotive #3003.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1937
The Canadian speed record for a steam locomotive in Canada is set at 112.5 MPH by a Montreal Locomotive Works Jubilee F2a class 4-4-4.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1999
In the Canadian province of Ontario: Trillium Rail takes over the operation of 41 miles of industrial trackage in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula comprising sections of the Cayuga sub. and the Thorold, Canal, Grantham, Fonthill, Town Line and West Welland spurs. The lines will be operated by a Trillium subsidiary, the Port Colborne Terminal Railway.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1832
Seventeen months after it was formally opened, the first railroad in the Mississipi valley, the Ponchartrain RR, places it's first steam engine, the Ponchartrain, into regular service.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1873
The Panic of 1873 was sparked by the failure of Jay Cooke & Company, which was involved in the financing of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1896
In the Canadian province of Ontario: Central Depot is opened by the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound and Canada Atlantic Railways. The building was originally Dufresne & McTaggart's wholesale grocery warehouse that had been previously converted to a militia store.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1909
The first trolley car crosses over the Queensboro Bridge in New York.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1911
Crooked River Bridge placed in service (Ontario, Canada?).
SEPTEMBER 17, 1967
Mount Washington cog railway derails, killing 8.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1989
Steam powered passenger service returns to the Grand Canyon.
dmoore74 wrote: CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: SEPTEMBER 16, 1838Railroad builder and founder of the Great Northern Railway, James J. Hill was born on this date. And for what it is worth, Ray Loftesness, a.k.a. CANADIANPACIFIC2816 was also born on this same date, in 1954.CANADIANPACIFIC2816 Happy Birthday!!!
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: SEPTEMBER 16, 1838Railroad builder and founder of the Great Northern Railway, James J. Hill was born on this date. And for what it is worth, Ray Loftesness, a.k.a. CANADIANPACIFIC2816 was also born on this same date, in 1954.CANADIANPACIFIC2816
SEPTEMBER 16, 1838
Railroad builder and founder of the Great Northern Railway, James J. Hill was born on this date. And for what it is worth, Ray Loftesness, a.k.a. CANADIANPACIFIC2816 was also born on this same date, in 1954.
Happy Birthday!!!
THANK YOU!!!
SEPTEMBER 16, 1872
Construction of the East Broad Top Railroad begins.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1875
The first Fast Mail train departs New York's Grand Central Station.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1931
In the Canadian province of Ontario: Canadian National is authorized to operate over a diversion of the Beachburg subdivision between mile 35 and mile 37.5. This was required to keep the line clear of the lake formed by the Chats falls power dam.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1985
Conrail removes Pennsylvania Railroad K4 4-6-2 #1361 from Horseshoe Curve and replaces it with a PRR GP-9.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1870
In the Canadian province of Ontario: The Canada Central Railway opens on the provincial gauge (5'6") from Chaudiere (Broad Street) to Carelton Place, then known as Carleton Junction. The inspection was carried out on this day by Mr. J.H. Rowan of the Department of Public Works who found that "the work done on the line is of a good and permanent character, the stations, rolling stock and other appurtenances being sufficient for the proper working of the road."
SEPTEMBER 15, 1885
The famous circus elephant "Jumbo" was killed by a GTR freight train hauled by locomotive no. 788 at St. Thomas. It was struck from behind while being lead along the track to be loaded into his car. Jumbo stood 12'5" high and weighed 7 1/2 tons. The Globe and Mail of October 26, 1951 had the following commentary:
"Jumbo, the Barnum circus elephant killed in St. Thomas on the evening of September 15, 1885, litterally attacked the old Grand Trunk freight locomotive which struck it. Fred R. Arnum, retired veteran train dispatcher, said today, in breaking a long silence on the tradgedy. Mr. Arnum was night operator for the Grand Trunk at the time and is the only one of the 38 railway witnesses who gave evidence at the inquiry in New York City, still living. He was there for two weeks giving his testimony. Mr. Arnum said said a circus official disregarded specific instructions given to him not to start loading the cirucus animals until 9:55 o'clock on the night of the accident, and also not until after a yard crew was sent to assist. The locomotive of a westbound freight struck Jumbo in the east yard at 8:18 o'clock. "Mr Arnum said that when Jumbo saw his danger he reared up on his rear legs and and struck at the locomotive with such force that he cut off the smokestack. One of the Cylinder heads stuck the elephant's tusk, driving it back into his head. Jumbo did not breathe his last until 4 o'clock the following morning."
SEPTEMBER 15, 1896
Two locomotives are deliberately collided together in the Great Train Wreck near Waco, Texas before a crowd of 30,000 spectators. Two men were killed and many others were injured by the resulting boiler explosions.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1907
24 people lost their lives in a train accident at Cannan, New Jersey.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1922
Federal Judge James Wilkerson issues an injunction banning all strike activities against the railroads, breaking a nationwide strike by 400,000 railroad workers.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1924
Canadian National opens the 30.66 mile Long Lake Cut off from Long Lake to Nakina, Ontario. It connected the former Canadian Northern and National Transcontinental lines.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
The last run of the "Enterprise" is made on Canada's VIA.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1865
In the Canadian province of Ontario: The Brockville and Ottawa Railway is opened between Arnprior and Sand Point.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1891
New York Central's Empire State Express makes record run from New York City to Buffalo (436 miles) in 7 hours and 6 minutes.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1915
A special funeral train conveys the body of Sir William C. Van Horne from Windsor Street Station, Montreal to Joliette, Illinois. Departing Montreal at 11:00 a.m., it was hauled by 4-6-2 #2213. Nearly a mile of drapery was used in decorating the train and the front of the CPR station and office.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1944
29 killed in train accident at Dewey, Indiana.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1974
The longest underwater tunnel in the U.S. (3.6 miles) used by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), opens between San Francisco and Oakland, California.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1992
The first subway car to be exported to Taiwan from the U.S. is completed.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1996
The York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former Canadian National line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ontario.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1882
Canada Atlantic Railway opens from Coteau, Quebec to Ottawa, Elgin Street. A gaily decorated special train had been run for the directors on the 11th of September. The company was originally incorporated as the Montreal and City of Ottawa Railway on April 14, 1871. It amalgamated with the Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge Company to form the Canada Atlantic Railway on May 15, 1879. The station was located at Catherine Street near Elgin Street, where the Queensway now is. The line was opened in sections as follows:
* Coteau Junction to Casselman on February 1, 1882 (trains had started running on 1, January)
* Casselman and South Indian (Limoges) by May 1882
* South Indian (Limoges) to Eastman Springs (Carlsbad Springs) by 15 July 1882
* Eastman Springs (Carlsbad Springs) to Ottawa on September 13, 1882.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1922
Railway shopmen end two month strike.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1928
The first demonstration of a Sperry rail detector car took place near Poughkeepski, New York before representatives of the American Railway Association.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1961
Canadian National officially opens it's Taschereau Hump Marshalling yard in Montreal.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1980
Amtrak's westbound Crescent is the last US passenger train drawn by multiple E units.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1982
The Interstate Commerce Commission approves merger of the Union Pacific, Western Pacific and Missouri Pacific Railroads, creating a 22,000 mile system.
S3eptember 11 1996.
Southern Pacific is absorbed into the big yellow Borg.
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