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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 24.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1819 – James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
20th century edit
- 1916 – The 55th Street station on New York City Subway's BMT West End Line opens.
21st century edit
- 2002 – In the Igandu train disaster, a large passenger train in Tanzania with over 1,200 people on board rolls backwards down a hill into a stationary goods train, killing 281 people.
Births edit
- 1811 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad, is born (d. 1853).
- 1839 – Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America, is born (d. 1903)
- 1851 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887–1907, is born (d. 1923).