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

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1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad uses Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb to push an open car carrying 18 passengers along 14 miles (22.5 km) of track. On the return trip, it raced a horse and carriage on a parallel track, a race which the horse won due to mechanical failure of the locomotive.^[1]^[2]
1854 – The Somerset Central Railway opens and is leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway for a seven-year term.
1864 – The United States Postal Service inaugurates the first railway post office route in the United States when Chicago Assistant Postmaster George B. Armstrong authorizes the route on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa.
1866 – The Danville, Urbana, Bloomington and Pekin Railroad, in Illinois, is incorporated.
1897 – Construction begins on the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian lines of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

1915 – The first train operates over the regauged Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway using 15 in (381 mm) gauge equipment.^[3]
1951 – The last mainline train leaves Berlin, Germany's, Lehrter Bahnhof headed for the Wustermark and Nauen.

^ "Peter Cooper's Locomotive". The Manufacturer and Builder. IV (2): 32. February 1872. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ Dudley, P.H. (February 1, 1886). "The Inception and Progress of Railways". Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences: 142. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ Van Zeller, Peter (December 2008). "100 years since the end of the 'Owd Ratty'". The Railway Magazine. 154 (1, 292): 39–40.
^ "Steve Marshall, chief executive of Railtrack – obituary". The Telegraph. October 10, 2017.