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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 7.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1853 – The Arkansas Midland Railroad is created by an act of the Arkansas legislature.
- 1874 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway, the predecessor of the Miami Valley Railway, is incorporated.
- 1885 – The last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway is driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1889 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway consolidates several of its subsidiary railroads in California into the Southern California Railway.[1]
20th century edit
- 1901 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas.[2]
- 1903 – Pacific Electric Railroad opens the Whittier line serving Downtown Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos.
- 1978 – The Illinois Railway Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Births edit
- 1944 – E. Hunter Harrison, CEO of Illinois Central Railroad (1993-1998), Canadian National Railway (2003-2009), Canadian Pacific Railway (2012-2017), and CSX Corporation (2017), is born (d. 2017).
Deaths edit
- 1904 – R. J. Billinton, Locomotive, Carriage, Wagon and Marine Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1890-1904, dies (b. 1844).
- 1907 – Jesús García Corona, a Mexican railroad engineer, is blown up driving a burning dynamite train away from a populated area of Nacozari, Sonora.
References edit
- ^ Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. p. 30. ISBN 0-88418-000-X.
- ^ Missouri Pacific Historical Society (2005). "St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS)". Retrieved November 7, 2005.