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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on February 6.

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1815 – The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.
1835 – The Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is incorporated in Indiana.^[1]
1837 – The Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad is reorganized as the Northern Indiana Railroad.^[1]

1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500 more.

2002 – Sabotage to some railway signal and power lines near Durban, South Africa, prevents a switch from being thrown properly, which in turn causes a commuter train to collide with a stationary freight train in the Charlotte’s Dale train crash; 24 people died and 168 more were injured in the collision.
2004 – A suicide bomber kills 41 people near Avtozavodskaya subway station on Moscow Metro's Zamoskvoretskaya Line. See: February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing

1864 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould and president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad is born (d. 1923).

^ ^a ^b New York Central Railroad (1913). "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". New York Central Railroad System Annual Report. Retrieved February 6, 2006.