February 3 in rail transport
- February 3 in rail transport
Events
* 1862 – The Glastonbury to Templecombe section of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway opens to public traffic.
* 1881 – The Seney Syndicate meet at Seney's New York bank and organize the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road).
* 1995 – The Canadian National Railway sells the former Central Vermont Railway lines in New York and Vermont to RailTex, forming the basis for the New England Central Railroad.
* 2004 – The first freight train travels the entire north-south transcontinental railroad in Australia between Adelaide, South Australia, and Darwin, Northern Territory.
Births
* 1843 – William Cornelius Van Horne, who oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and who became the youngest superintendent of the Illinois Central Railroad, is born (d. 1915).
* 1853 – Samuel Morse Felton, Jr., president of Chicago and Alton Railroad 1899-1908, Chicago Great Western Railway 1909-1925 (d. 1930).
Deaths
References
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