May 10 in rail transport

May 10 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1869 – The golden spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
* 1873 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Granada, Colorado.
* 1893 – New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a passenger train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York, reaching 112.5 mph (181 km/h); this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph (161 km/h).

20th century

* 1997 – Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago-Los Angeles "Desert Wind" passenger train.

21st century

* 2002 – The Potters Bar rail crash occurs at Potters Bar, north of London, England, when a northbound passenger train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
* 2004 – Canadian National Railway acquires Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.

Births

Deaths

References

* Santa Fe Railroad (1945), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.


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