September 18 in rail transport
- September 18 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1830 – In a race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's "Tom Thumb" and a stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, the horse and coach wins.
* 1888 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa).
* 1889 – The Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway.
20th century
* 1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.
* 1972 – The São Paulo Metro is inaugurated.
* 1982 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
* 1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, departs with six Canadian National Railway diesel locomotives pulling 64 railroad cars and caboose number 79822.
* 1999 – Trillium Rail subsidiary Port Colborne Terminal Railway begins operations on 41 miles (66 km) of track in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.
Births
Deaths
* 1860 – Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway, dies (b. 1805).
References
* About.com, " [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus2c.htm The Post Office and the History of Railroad Mail Service] ". Retrieved September 18 2005.
* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved September 18 2005.
* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history] ". Retrieved September 18 2005.
* Great Northern Railway Historical Society, " [http://www.gnrhs.org/gn_history.htm GN History] ". Retrieved September 18 2005.
* Smith, Ivan (1998), " [http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/SignificantDatesInNSRailwayHistoryPart4.html Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History] ". Retrieved September 18 2005.
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