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	1 FPMRR closed. 1903: First Western film, The Great Train Robbery, is released.	2 FPMRR closed. 1980: Pullman Company is dissolved.	3 FPMRR closed. 1967: The last Twentieth Century Limited arrives at Chicago's LaSalle Street Station.	4 FPMRR closed. 1967: The Grangers, a secret order of farmers, is founded in Washington DC. It seeks to control railroad rates and middlemen.	5 First train at 12:00 1883: The Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, and Union Pacific Railroads make an agreement for interchange of traffic at Omaha.	6 First train at 12:00 1915: Connaught Tunnel on the Canadian Pacific Railway. For 70 years, the five-mile tunnel was Canada's longest.
7 FPMRR closed. 1891: Passenger service begins on the first international tunnel, under the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.	8 FPMRR closed. 1874: Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas.	9 FPMRR closed. 1852: The Pacific makes the first demonstration run west of the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to Cheltenham, a distance of five miles.	10 FPMRR closed. 1852: The Pennsylvania RR's tracks reach the Ohio River at Pittsburgh via the famous Horseshoe Curve.	11 FPMRR closed. 1905: Ground broken for Willamette Valley Traction Co.	12 First train at 12:00 1989: First revenue train runs through the CP RR's 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel. This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.	13 First train at 12:00 1913: L. C. Gilman becomes President of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (SP&S Ry.)
14 FPMRR closed. 1934: The first streamlined steam locomotive, the Commodore Vanderbilt, is placed in service on the New York Central.	15 FPMRR closed. 1880: Southern Pacific begins train service to Deming, New Mexico.	16 FPMRR closed. 1935: The world's longest railroad bridge, the Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana, opens. The 23,235-foot bridge crosses the Mississippi River.	17 FPMRR closed. 1952: After three days of digging, passengers of the west bound City of San Francisco were rescued from Yuba Gap where they had been snowbound by the worst storm to hit the Sierras in many years. Recovery of the engines and passenger cars required three more days.	18 FPMRR closed. 1949: Last regular passenger service on the Central Railroad of New Jersey.	19 First train at 12:00 1882: Denver & Rio Grande reaches Utah border. Because the D&RG had no charter to operate in Utah, William Palmer incorporated the mileage in that state separately as the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway.	20 First train at 12:00 1883: Michigan Central Railway international cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls.
21 First train at 12:00 1883: Michigan Central Railway international cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls.	22 First train at 12:00 1829: Baltimore & Ohio begins passenger operations from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills.	23 First train at 12:00 1851: Illinois Central Railroad begins construction.	24 First train at 12:00 1852: The Baltimore & Ohio's tracks reach the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia.	25 Christmas Day First train at 12:00 1830: The Best Friend of Charleston, owned by the South Carolina Railroad, becomes the first American locomotive in regular service in the United States.	26 First train at 12:00 1917: President Woodrow Wilson takes possession and control of the nations railroads by proclamation. This resulted in the formation of the United States Railroad Administration, which operated the country's railroads until March 3, 1920.	27 First train at 12:00 1943: Fearing a threat to national security, President Franklin Roosevelt orders the government to seize the nation's railroads in order to avert a strike.
28 First train at 12:00 1972: Amtrak announces purchase of French built Turboliners.	29 First train at 12:00 1982: Louisville and Nashville merged into Seaboard Coast Line, which changes its name to Seaboard System.	30 First train at 12:00 1907: United Railways begins passenger service.	31 First train at 12:00 1968: Last U.S. Pullman service.	All operations depend on favorable weather conditions.