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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on December 28.

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1825 – George William Featherstonhaugh (pronounced fen-shaw), of Duanesburgh, New York, runs a newspaper notice announcing the formation of the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company.
1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches the border between Kansas and Colorado.^[1]
1879 – A storm destroys part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Scotland while a passenger train is traversing it; the event is commemorated in a poem by William McGonagall, The Tay Bridge Disaster.
1883 – Boston and Maine Railroad leases the Eastern Railroad in Massachusetts.

1906 – After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McCrea.
1917 – The United States federal government takes control of American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration for World War I.

2009 – Guangzhou Metro's Line 4 extension connecting Wanshengwei to Chebeinan opens.
2010 – Phase 1 of Shenzhen Metro Line 2 opens connecting Chiwan to Window of the World.

1763 – John Molson, who established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada, is born (d. 1836).
1823 – Thomas Alexander Scott, president of Union Pacific Railroad 1871-1872 (d. 1881).