March 2010
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| 1 FPMRR Summer Schedule begins. FPMRR closed. 1877: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Munn v. Illinois that states can regulate interstate transportation rates if it affects the public interest. |
2 First train at 11:00 1893: Safety Appliance Act passes. It requires common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and locomotives with driving wheel brakes. |
3 First train at 11:00 1871: Texas & Pacific Railroad is incorporated by act of Congress as the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. |
4 Home School Day at the Fort Worth Zoo First train at 11:00 1839: William F. Harnden becomes the first to carry express freight on a train through a contract with the Boston & Providence RR. Service begins for cities as far apart as Boston and New York, and later extended to Philadelphia. |
5 First train at 11:00 1885: First state railroad legislation is passed by the Georgia legislature. The law made railroad companies liable for injuries caused by negligence to employees and others. |
6 First train at 11:00 1884: Northern Illinois Railway incorporated. The 76-mile railroad is sold to Chicago & North Western June 6, 1888. |
7 First train at 11:00 1823: The New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Co. was chartered to build across the state. |
| 8 FPMRR closed. 1855: The first train crosses the second railroad suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. |
9 First train at 11:00 1949: The Illinois Central Railroad places the first all-electric dining car, the Cafe St. Louis into service between Chicago and St. Louis, MO. |
10 First train at 11:00 1902: U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox files an antitrust suit against Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company that controls the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington Railroads. |
11 First train at 11:00 1908: Golden Spike ceremony at Sheridan's Point, WA (SP&S Ry). |
12 First train at 11:00 1912: Congress agrees to fund construction and operation of a railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. |
13 First train at 11:00 1967: Last run of the Twentieth Century Limited. |
14 Daylight savings begins. First train at 11:00 1894: The Dalton Gang robs the Woodward, Oklahoma train station, but leave an entire safe filled with money. |
| 15 FPMRR closed. 1946: Wartime restrictions on sleeping car service under 450 miles ends. |
16 First train at 11:00 1881: First train to cover a mile in less than a minute. |
17 First train at 11:00 1881: First train to cover a mile in less than a minute. |
18 First train at 11:00 1834: First railroad tunnel (Stapel Bend Tunnel) in US completed, in Pennsylvania. |
19 First train at 11:00 1918: Congress passes the Standard Time Act. |
20 First train at 11:00 1949: California Zephyr begins service over the Burlington, Rio Grande and Western Pacific railroads. |
21 First train at 11:00 1918: The Railroad Control Act is adopted which provides the determination of how railroads under government control are compensated. |
| 22 FPMRR closed. 1970: California Zephyr service ends on the Western Pacific leaving the railroad freight-only. |
23 First train at 11:00 1874: Iowa becomes the third state to enact Granger Laws which regulate railroad freight rates. |
24 First train at 11:00 1932: New York radio station WABC makes first broadcast from a moving train, a variety show on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Maryland. |
25 First train at 11:00 1961: The Tallulah Falls Railway, which was used as a setting in the 1950 film, I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, and in 1960 by Disney for The Great Locomotive Chase ceases operation. |
26 First train at 11:00 1884: High winds push eight coal cars for 100 miles on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad east of Denver. |
27 First train at 11:00 1960: Grand Trunk Western runs last official regular steam powered passenger train. |
28 First train at 11:00 1975: American Freedom Train departs Washington DC with ex-Reading 4-8-4 #2101 and begins 2 year, 17,000 mile tour. |
| 29 FPMRR closed. 1839: Railway Express Agency established. |
30 First train at 11:00 1883: Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway reaches Salt Lake City. |
31 First train at 11:00 1862: The Oregon Pony becomes the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest. |
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