November 10 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1853 – Canada's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario, to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.
* 1862 – Chicago and North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin. [cite journal| author=Follmar, Joe, and August, Paul| journal=North Western Lines| title=The C&NW in the Fox River Valley| month=Winter| year=2003| volume=30| issue=3| id=ISSN 0279-5000| pages=p 26–49| ]
* 1887 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's locomotive to heat the passenger cars instead of coal or wood stoves in each car.

20th century

* 1909 – Louis Brennan successfully demonstrates his gyroscopically-balanced monorail system, which he designed for military use and patented in 1903, at Gillingham, England.
* 1979 – 1979 Mississauga train derailment A CP Rail train develops a hot box and derails 24 cars carrying hazardous materials near Mississauga, Ontario; almost 250,000 people are evacuated for up to five days at a time while cleanup commences.
* 1996 – Amtrak operates its first Roadrailer in regular revenue service hauled behind the "Three Rivers" from Chicago, Illinois, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [cite journal| author=Johnston, Bob| year=1997| month=February| title=Amtrak RoadRailers get rolling| journal=Trains Magazine| volume=57| issue=2| pages=p 26| ]

Births

Deaths

* 1946 – Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, dies (b. 1879).

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