September 2010
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1 First train at 9:30 1859: George Pullman's first sleeping car, Chicago & Alton number 9, makes its first run from Bloomington, IL to Chicago. |
2 First train at 9:30 1919: Congress passes bill barring railroad strikes. |
3 First train at 9:30 1916: The Adamson Act, which establishes an eight hour work day for all railroad employees is implemented. |
4 First train at 9:30 1872: The New York Sun exposes Credit Mobilier Scandal. During the construction of the trans-continental railroad, Massachusetts Representative Oakes Ames and other directors of the Union Pacific, created a company called Credit Mobilier of America, which was used to award themselves, rich company contracts. To avoid congressional investigation, Ames distributed shares to other congressmen, Cabinet members and Vice-President Colfax. Ames is censured by the House of Representatives on 28 February 1873. |
5 First train at 9:30 1961: Bangor & Arrostook ends its railway passenger service. |
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| 6 Labor Day First train at 9:30 1869: First westbound train arrives in San Francisco. |
7 FPMRR closed. 1975: Amfleet cars enter service on Amtrak. |
8 First train at 10:15 1883: President Chester Arthur is present for the opening of the first railroad to the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Pacific Railroad, at Gold Creek, Montana. |
9 First train at 10:15 1929: First air-conditioned Pullman cars go into service between Chicago and Los Angeles. |
10 First train at 10:15 1995: After 93 years of service, the Broadway Limited is discontinued. |
11 First train at 10:15 1950: Lima ships its last locomotive, a center cab diesel, to the Pennsylvania Railroad. |
12 First train at 10:15 1952: Compartmentalized freight cars developed by the Pullman Standard Car Company and the Western Pacific Railroad are placed in service between Chicago and San Francisco. |
| 13 FPMRR closed. 1980: Amtrak's westbound Crescent is the last U.S. passenger train drawn by multiple E units. |
14 First train at 10:15 1891: New York Central's Empire State Express makes record run from New York City to Buffalo (436 miles) in 7 hours and 6 minutes. |
15 First train at 10:15 1922: Federal Judge James Wilkerson issues an injunction banning all strike activities against the railroads, breaking a nationwide strike by 400,000 railroad workers. |
16 First train at 10:15 1895: First Fast Mail train departs New York's Grand Central Station. |
17 First train at 10:15 1832: Seventeen months after it was formally opened, the first railroad in the Mississippi valley, the Pontchartrain RR, places its first steam engine, the Pontchartrain, into regular service. |
18 First train at 10:15 1937: Canadian speed record for a steam locomotive in Canada set at 112.5 MPH by a Montreal Locomotive Works Jubilee F2a class 4-4-4. |
19 First train at 10:15 1838: First patent for a railroad brake issued to Ephraim Morris of Bloomfield, NJ. |
| 20 FPMRR closed. 1984: Singer, songwriter Steve Goodman, who composed the song City of New Orleans, dies in Seattle. |
21 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1856: Illinois Central Railroad connects Chicago to Cairo. With 700 miles of track, the railroad is the longest in the country. |
22 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1851: Charles Minot, Superintendent of the Erie RR, became the first railroad employee to use a telegraph in the movement of trains. His westbound train pulled into a siding at Turner (now called Harriman), New York, to allow an eastbound to pass. The eastbound train was late, so Minot went to the nearest telegraph office to find out where the train was; it hadn't yet reached Goshen, 13 miles west, so he wired ahead orders for that train to be held there for the meet. On returning to his own train, he ordered the engineer to move the train to Goshen, but the engineer refused to take such a risk, so Minot drove the train himself to Goshen where they met the errant eastbound. |
23 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1874: First East Broad Top train runs. |
24 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1869: Railroad speculators Jay Gould and Jim Fisk's attempt to corner the gold market fails. |
25 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1866: Pop safety valve patented by George W. Richardson of the Troy & Boston Railroad. |
26 First train at 10:15 1884: St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway is leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway for 999 years. |
| 27 FPMRR closed. 1864: Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed. |
28 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1956: C & O completes dieselization. |
29 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1962: Last steam-powered run on the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range. |
30 FPMRR closed for freeway construction. 1877: The Southern Pacific enters Arizona at Yuma, becoming the first railroad in the Territory. |
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