July 3 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1854 – The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, opens for passenger service.
* 1869 – Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad subsidiary Kansas City and Cameron Railroad opens the Hannibal Bridge, the first railroad bridge across the Missouri River, connecting its namesake cities.
* 1874 – The first revenue trains on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operate between Denver and Morrison, Colorado.
* 1884 – The first Dow Jones average, the predecessor of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is published; of the eleven companies included in the average, nine of them are American railroads. [" [http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/FINANCE/DowJonesAvgsHist.html Charles Dow, the History of the Dow Jones Averages, Dow Jones Averages Chronology 1884 - 1995] ". Retrieved February 6 2006.]

20th century

* 1918 – The 121st Street station on New York City Subway's BMT Jamaica Line opens.
* 1938 – The steam locomotive "Pacific 4468 Mallard" gets the world speed record for steam locomotives at 126 mph (203 km/h).
* 1957 – The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad ceases all operations.
* 1983 – Chicago and North Western Railway holds official groundbreaking ceremonies for the construction of the line into Wyoming's Powder River Basin. [cite journal | last=Feurer |first=Keith| year=2004| month=Summer| title=Look who came out on top| journal=North Western Lines (Chicago and North Western Railway Historical Society)| volume=32| issue=1| pages=16–39| id=ISSN|0279-5000|]
* 1995 – The extension of Minsk Metro's Avtozavodskaya Line connecting Frunzenskaya to Pushkinskaya opens.

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