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1 First train at 11:00 1891: North America's highest railroad (14,109 ft), the Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway in Colorado, opens. |
2 First train at 11:00 1982: Soo Line takes control of Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern. |
3 First train at 11:00 1891: Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad incorporated. |
4 First train at 11:00 1857: The first middle route to the Mississippi River was completed, when the Ohio & Mississippi RR's tracks connected East St Louis with Cincinnati and Baltimore. |
5 First train at 11:00 1979: A Long Island Railroad train becomes the first to be operated exclusively by women. |
6 First train at 11:00 1833: Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to travel by rail, on the B & O line between Ellicott's Mills and Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 7 FPMRR closed. 1905: The first steel mail car is placed into service on the New York, Salamanca & Chicago Railroad. |
8 First train at 11:00 1953: Union Pacific Railroad puts first propane gas turbine locomotive in service. |
9 First train at 11:00 1959: Operations cease on the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad. |
10 First train at 11:00 1910 The Spokane, Portland & Seattle completes its mainline from Spokane to Portland. |
11 First train at 11:00 1905: Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs). |
12 First train at 11:00 1905: Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Special (which later became the Broadway Limited) sets speed record of 127.2 MPH. This would stand as the all time record for steam locomotives. |
13 First train at 11:00 1928: The first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry is tested for the first time at Beacon, NY. The car made it possible to detect flaws in railroad tracks. |
| 14 FPMRR closed. 1936: A new streamline train, the City of San Francisco, begins service. |
15 First train at 11:00 1927: First two-way radio communication between a caboose and locomotive on a moving train is demonstrated by the General Electric Company. |
16 First train at 11:00 1949: Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pennsylvania. |
17 First train at 11:00 1831: First steam locomotive boiler explosion in the U.S. occurs when the fireman ties down the safety valve of the Best Friend of Charleston. |
18 First train at 11:00 1886: Transcontinental train service begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway. |
19 First train at 11:00 1913: The Supreme Court rules that a state may establish railroad rates within its own borders if there is no conflict with federal laws. |
20 First train at 11:00 1893: The first industrial railroad union, the American Railway Union, is formed with Eugene Debs elected as its first president. |
| 21 FPMRR closed. 1970: Penn Central files for bankruptcy. |
22 First train at 11:00 1972: Amtrak's first own locomotives, SDP40F's from EMD, debut on the Chicago to Los Angeles Super Chief. |
23 First train at 9:30 1938: New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 police to patrol subway system. |
24 First train at 9:30 1886: The first special train of fruit for eastern markets leaves Sacramento, California. |
25 First train at 9:30 1894: American Railway Union goes on strike. |
26 First train at 9:30 1894: Eugene Deb's American Railway Union calls on every signalman, brakeman, switchman, fireman and yardman to not handle, move or in anyway assist in running a Pullman car or any train carrying such a car in support of the Pullman Strike. |
27 First train at 9:30 1861: The Central Pacific Railroad is organized in California. |
| 28 FPMRR closed. 1895: First electric train service in the U.S. begins on the New Haven & Hartford Railroad on the 7-mile Nantasket Branch. |
29 First train at 9:30 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt signs the Hepburn Act, which allows the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and set railroad rates. |
30 First train at 9:30 1831: The Baltimore & Ohio RR becomes the first railroad to carry troops, transporting about 100 troops to Sykes Mills, Maryland to quell a riot by striking railroad workers. |
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