March 8 in rail transport
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Events
19th century
* 1832 – The Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad is chartered in Virginia. [cite web| url=http://railfanning.org/history/today.htm| title=Today in Railroad History| work=Railfanning.org| year=2005| accessdate=2007-03-08]
* 1881 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico, [cite book| author=Santa Fe Railroad| year=1945| title=Along Your Way| publisher=Rand McNally| location=Chicago, Illinois] making a connection with Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to complete a second transcontinental route across the United States. [cite web| url=http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_clubs/transcontinental_railroad/transcontinental_railroad.html| title=Transcontinental, Railroad, Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Railway Act| work=American Western History Museums| accessdate=2007-03-08]
20th century
* 1904 – The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, Utah, for the railroad's mainline.
* 1920 – The board of directors for Canadian National Railway assumes management control of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=2007-02-09| accessdate=2007-03-08]
21st century
* 2006 – Jean-Paul Denanot, president of the Limousin region of France, announces a new TGV service to begin by the following winter between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Lille via Limoges and Orléans. [cite web| url=http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8_mars_dans_les_chemins_de_fer&oldid=8332648| title=8 mars dans les chemins de fer| work=French language Wikipedia| language=French| date=2006-06-30| accessdate=2007-03-08]
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