Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 30

A Michigan-bound Amtrak train

1828 – Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works, is born (d. 1887).
1868 – Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
1970 – United States President Richard Nixon signs into law the Rail Passenger Service Act, a bill that creates Amtrak (pictured) to take over the burden of passenger train operations in America.
1972 – The driver of a fast train does not notice a stop signal due to heavy fog and collides with another train in Schweinsburg-Culten, East Germany. 22 die and 70 are injured.

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