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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 13.

Events

19th century

• 1877 – Rørosbanen, Norway's oldest mainline railway, opens as a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railway.

20th century

• 1902 – Professor Ernest Rutherford of McGill University demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal.
• 1914 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
• 1925 – The 111th Street station on New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line opens.
• 1988 – Rio Grande Industries, parent company of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, purchases Southern Pacific Railroad; the post-merger company adopts the Southern Pacific name due to brand recognition with shippers.