April 26 in rail transport
- April 26 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1869 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad opens its first segment of track (6 miles / 10 km long) between Topeka and Pauline, Kansas.
* 1875 – Prince Edward Island Railway operates its first regularly scheduled train between Charlottetown and Georgetown. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| year=2006-03-17| accessdate=2006-04-26| ]
* 1900 – A defective chimney on a house in Hull starts the Great Hull-Ottawa fire; among the items destroyed are nearly 200 freight cars and the Canadian Pacific Railway station and freight house. The resulting shortage of lumber for reconstruction forces Canada Atlantic Railway to temporarily halt production on new railroad cars at the company shops in Ottawa. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| year=2006-04-23| accessdate=2006-04-26| ]
20th century
* 1905 – The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (which later became part of Union Pacific Railroad) signs an agreement to operate over the California Southern Railroad's track through Cajon Pass via trackage rights. [cite book| author=Signor, John R.| title=The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company; Union Pacific's Historic Salt Lake Route| publisher=Golden West Books| location=San Marino, California| year=1988| id=ISBN 0-87095-101-7| pages=p 37| ]
21st century
* 2003 – DLW completes construction of the first WDP-4 locomotive to be built entirely within India. [cite web| url=http://irfca.org/faq/faq-history6.html| title=IR History: Part - VI (1995 - present)| year=2005| author=Indian Railways Fan Club| accessdate=2006-04-26| ]
Births
* 1861 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (d. 1919).
Deaths
* 1870 – Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (b. 1832).
References
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