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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 23.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake.
- 1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.[1]
20th century edit
- 1933 – San Diego and Arizona Railway's bypass around tunnel 7, which was destroyed by fire, opens.[2]
- 1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.[3]
21st century edit
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- 2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in the north of Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100 m-deep ravine above the Morača river.
Births edit
- 1799 – Alois Negrelli, builder of the first railway in Switzerland, which connected Zurich and Baden, is born (d. 1858).
Deaths edit
- 1896 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, dies (b. 1814).
References edit
- ^ "Northwestern Elevated (1893-1924)". Chicago "L".org. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
- ^ San Diego Railroad Museum (May 8, 2003). "San Diego's "Impossible Railroad"". Retrieved January 23, 2006.
- ^ Feather River Rail Society/Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society (2002). "Western Pacific History". Retrieved January 23, 2006.