Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 11

1901 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950-1966, is born (d. 1969).
1905 – Long Island Rail Road inaugurates electric operations on the Rockaway Beach Division connecting Far Rockaway (pictured) and Valley Stream.^[1]
2000 – Amtrak's Acela Express service between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., is inaugurated.
2001 – Seven members of the CCFE (Communauté des chemins de fer européens) leave to form EIM (European Infrastructure Managers).

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^ "December 11, 1905, Far Rockaway Branch". aRRt's aRRchive. Retrieved December 11, 2006.