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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on August 25.

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1829 – Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive used on a common carrier railroad, is operated in a race against a horsecar.^[1]
1835 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens the Washington Branch to connect the railroad to Washington, D.C..^[2]
1860 – England's Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, Canada.

1904 – The New Long Railroad Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., opens.^[2]
1927 – Detroit and Mackinac Railway officially abandons the section from Au Sable River Jct. to Comins and the Curran Branch between Hardy and Beavers.^[3]
1943 – Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operates its last regular narrow gauge train on the section between Leadville and Climax.^[1]
1970 – Mobile and Gulf Railroad operates the last regularly-scheduled steam locomotive-powered train on a common carrier railroad in North America.^[1]

1840 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s, is born (d. 1893).
1846 – Cassius Milton Wicker, commissioner of Chicago Freight Bureau, president of a number of midwestern and New England railroad companies, is born (d. 1913).

^ ^a ^b ^c Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History: August". Retrieved 2006-08-25.
^ ^a ^b Washington D.C. Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. "Washington, D.C. Railroad History". Retrieved 2006-08-25.
^ "RRHX - Railroad History Timeline: 1920s". Retrieved 2006-08-25.