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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 18.

Events

19th century

• 1888 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa).
• 1889 – The Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway.
• 1893 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens connecting Ottawa and Arnprior.
• 1899 – New Haven Railroad signs a deal with Sanderson & Porter, construction contractors, acquiring control of the People's Tramway in Connecticut.

20th century

• 1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 miles per hour (181 km/h) near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.
• 1970 – The Flying Scotsman locomotive and train on its North American tour travels from Ottawa to Montreal, where it is then displayed near Vertu railway station.
• 1972 – The São Paulo Metro is inaugurated.
• 1982 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
• 1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, departs with six Canadian National Railway diesel locomotives pulling 64 railroad cars and caboose number 79822.
• 1999 – Trillium Rail subsidiary Port Colborne Terminal Railway begins operations on 41 miles (66 km) of track in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.

Deaths

• 1860 – Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway, dies (b. 1805).