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| All operations depend on favorable weather conditions. | 1 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1861: Theodore Judah recommends Donner Pass route for the Central Pacific through the Sierra Nevadas. |
2 First train at 10:15 1882: 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 as possible!" |
3 First train at 10:15 1837: The Sandusky, the first locomotive equipped with a whistle makes it's first run from Patterson to New Brunswick, NJ. |
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| 4 FPMRR closed. 1980: Smithsonian reactivates 2-4-0 John Bull. |
5 First train at 11:00 |
6 First train at 11:00 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. |
7 First train at 11:00 1834: First American railroad tunnel opens on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. |
8 First train at 11:00 1979: Amtrak's Chicago to Miami Floridian is discontinued. |
9 First train at 10:15 1877: Presidential order allows Southern Pacific to expand into Arizona and New Mexico. |
10 First train at 10:15 1848: The first steam engine to operate in Chicago, for the Galena & Chicago Union RR, the Pioneer, arrives in New York by boat. |
| 11 Columbus Day First train at 10:15 1962: Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 # 641 makes last run of steam on a regular daily service standard gauge railroad, Leadville to Climax, Colorado. |
12 FPMRR closed. 1954: Last eight of Erie Railroad's onetime fleet of 1545 steam locomotives make their last journey to the railroad's Chicago scrap yard. |
13 First train at 11:00 1988: Southern Pacific Railroad sold to Rio Grande Industries. |
14 First train at 11:00 1980: The Staggers Rail Act substantially deregulates railroads in the United States. |
15 First train at 11:00 1899: Overland Limited begins service on the Southern Pacific. |
16 First train at 10:15 1859: Abolitionist John Brown attacks U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry and B & O's Wheeling to Baltimore Express. |
17 First train at 10:15 1902: The Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway is chartered (Now part of Burlington Northern's Dallas to Galveston line). |
| 18 FPMRR closed. 1961: GM rolls out first GP-30 diesel-electric locomotive. |
19 First train at 11:00 1897: George Pullman dies. |
20 First train at 11:00 1940: First issue of Trains published. |
21 First train at 11:00 1960: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy opens new 2500-foot Mississippi River Bridge at Quincy, Illinois. |
22 Boo at the Zoo First train at 11:00 1934: The Union Pacific's six car streamlined M-10001 departs Los Angeles for a 56 hour, 55 minute transcontinental run to New York's Grand Central Terminal. |
23 Boo at the Zoo First train at 10:15 1936: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Zephyr, makes Chicago to Denver run in 12 hours, 12 minutes - an average of 91.6 MPH. |
24 Boo at the Zoo First train at 10:15 1866: The first Bucker snowplow is completed at the Central Pacific's Sacramento shops. |
| 25 FPMRR closed. 1866: In Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the Supreme Court declares that a state cannot regulate even that portion of interstate commerce that takes place within its own borders, removing the States legislative powers over railroads. This led to passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by Congress. |
26 First train at 11:00 1985: First run for Burlington Northern's propane-fueled GP-9. |
27 First train at 11:00 1891: The St. Clair Tunnel, connecting the U.S. and Canada beneath the St. Clair River opens. |
28 First train at 11:00 1979: Amtrak's first double deck Superliner coaches debut on the Chicago to Seattle Empire Builder. |
29 Boo at the Zoo First train at 11:00 |
30 Boo at the Zoo First train at 10:15. 1983: Amtrak begins tri-weekly Auto Train service from Lofton, VA to Sanford, FL. |
31 Halloween Boo at the Zoo First train at 10:15 1970: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, known as Amtrak, is created. |