November 2010
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| 1 FPMRR closed. 1871: The Chicago & Alton Railroad completes the first all-steel bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. |
2 First train at 11:00 1969: Last run for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle. |
3 First train at 11:00 1909: Oregon Trunk Railway (OT) incorporated. |
4 First train at 11:00 1909: Regular train service begins on the East Broad Top Railroad. |
5 First train at 11:00 1889: Rio Grande Southern Railroad incorporated. |
6 First train at 11:00 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. |
7 Daylight Savings ends. First Train at 11:00 1970: The second longest tunnel in the U.S., the 7 mile 1327 yard Flathead Tunnel opens on the Great Northern. |
| 8 FPMRR closed. 1905: Union Pacific's Chicago to San Francisco Overland Limited gets electric lighting. |
9 FPMRR closed. 1833: Twelve passengers on the Camden & Amboy Railroad are injured in the first passenger train accident in the U.S. |
10 First train at 11:00 1952: Supreme Court upholds decision barring segregation on interstate railroads. |
11 First train at 11:00 1934: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Pioneer Zephyr makes its first run in scheduled passenger service between Lincoln, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Missouri. |
12 First train at 11:00 1965: Heaviest single piece of freight carried by rail, a 549.2 tons hydrocraker reactor hauled from Birmingham, Alabama to Toledo, Ohio. |
13 First train at 11:00 1906: New York Central's New York electrification begins. |
14 First Train at 11:00. 1988: Department of Transportation announces random drug testing for 90,000 railroad workers. |
| 15 FPMRR closed. 1957: Longest and heaviest train (500 coal cars, 4 miles long, 42,000 tons) hauled by Norfolk and Western Railroad between Iaeger, West Virginia and Portsmouth, Ohio. |
16 FPMRR closed. 1967: Canadian Pacific begins testing Canada's first remote-controlled mid-train diesel locomotives in regular freight service, using new Robot radio-command system. |
17 First train at 11:00 1837: The Sandusky, believed to be the first locomotive equipped with a whistle in the US, arrives on the Mad River & Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio. |
18 First train at 11:00 1883: Standard time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific) created, abolishing 100 different local times in use in the United States. |
19 First train at 11:00 1891: Granville T. Woods receives 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. |
20 First train at 11:00 1850: First train operated on the Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. |
21 First Train at 11:00 1890: First train operated on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. |
| 22 FPMRR closed. 1882: Denver & Rio Grande reaches Grand Junction from Gunnison, CO |
23 FPMRR closed. 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. |
24 First Train at 11:00. 1912: First run for Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited. |
25 Thanksgiving Day FPMRR closed. 1884: The Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company (both later forming Union Pacific's route to the northwest) join rails. |
26 First train at 11:00 1867: The first patent for a refrigerated car is granted to J. B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan. |
27 First Train at 11:00. 1910: New York's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal. |
28 First Train at 11:00. 1877: The first two foot gauge railroad in the U.S., the Bedford & Billerica Railroad, opens. |
| 29 FPMRR winter schedule begins. FPMRR closed. 1870: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe signs contracts to build the railroad from Atchison to Topeka, Kansas. |
30 FPMRR closed. 1959: Passenger service ends on the Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern Railroad). |
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