August 2010
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| All operations depend on favorable weather conditions. | 1 First Train at 9:30 1836: Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur Railroad decides to use sandboxes on locomotives to prevent them from slipping on squashed grasshoppers. |
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| 2 FPMRR closed. 1919: Railroad workers strike for higher wages, ask for profit sharing, and government ownership. |
3 First Train at 9:30 1894: The Pullman strike is broken after tragic loss of life and an estimated $80,000,000 loss in property and wages. |
4 First Train at 9:30 1885: Electric locomotives introduced on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to carry trains through the 3.6 mile Baltimore Tunnel. |
5 First Train at 9:30 1922: Railroad union leaders meet with President Warren G. Harding and demand restoration of seniority and right to strike. |
6 First Train at 9:30 1867: A group of Cheyenne braves derail a Union Pacific train near Plum Creek, Nebraska. |
7 First Train at 9:30 1975: Amfleet cars enter service on Amtrak. |
8 First Train at 9:30 1829: The Stourbridge Lion becomes the first English steam locomotive to travel on a track in America between Carbondale and Honesdale, PA on the Delaware & Hudson. It was found to be too heavy for the track and was converted to stationary use soon afterward and the D&H resumes using horses to pull its trains. |
| 9 FPMRR closed. 1831: The DeWitt Clinton becomes the first train operated in New York State on the Mohawk and Western Railroad from Albany to Schenectady. |
10 First traun at 11:00 1885: The Baltimore & Hampden Line becomes the first commercial electric railroad. |
11 First Train at 9:30 1955: Last Wabash steam locomotive in use, #573, is retired at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation. |
12 First Train at 9:30 1988: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) operations taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad. |
13 First Train at 9:30 1960: East Broad Top Railroad reopened as a tourist railroad. |
14 First Train at 9:30 1900: Railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington dies. |
15 First Train at 9:30 1870: The Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Denver. |
| 16 FPMRR closed. 1851: International rail service opens from Laprarie, Quebec to Rouses Point, New York. |
17 First Train at 9:30 1897: W. B. Purvis patents electric railway switch. |
18 First Train at 9:30 1883: Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary. |
19 First Train at 9:30 1916: President Woodrow Wilson demands railroads grant 8 hour workday. |
20 First Train at 9:30 1894: First Heisler-type locomotive completed by Stearns Manufacturing Co. in Erie, Pennsylvania. |
21 First Train at 9:30 1935: Union Pacific's Challenger begins service as the second section of the Los Angeles Limited. |
22 First Train at 9:30 1935: B & O places first diesel locomotives to haul long distance passenger trains into service. |
| 23 FPMRR closed. 1882: First Canadian Pacific Railway train arrives at Regina, Saskatchewan. |
24 First Train at 9:30 1946: Boston & Maine replaces Hoosac Tunnel electrification with diesels. |
25 First Train at 9:30 1829: The locomotive, Tom Thumb, races with a horse drawn train, but loses when the engine breaks down. |
26 First Train at 9:30 1878: The 3rd Avenue El in New York City opens. Of Manhattan's elevated railroads the 3rd Avenue El remained in service the longest, running for nearly 80 years. |
27 First Train at 9:30 1867: First patent for a railroad crossing gate issued to J. Nason and J. F. Wilson of Boston. |
28 First Train at 9:30 1864: First Post Office car for sorting and distributing mail in route put into service by Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. |
29 First Train at 9:30 1866: First public demonstration of the world's first Cog railroad, the Mount Washington Cog Railway, on a half-mile section at the base of Mount Washington. |
| 30 FPMRR closed. 1830: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad discontinues use of horse drawn trains in favor of steam locomotives. |
31 First Train at 9:30 1831: The John Bull, the oldest operable steam engine in the US, is delivered to the Camden & Amboy RR. |
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