October 24 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1853 – The Junction Railroad line from Ohio City to Toledo, Ohio, opens as part of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad. [cite web| url=http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html| title=History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company| date=1913| publisher=New York Central Railroad| work=1913 Annual Report| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]
* 1859 – The Chestnut and Walnut Street Railway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is extended to 22nd Street. [cite web| url=http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/railroad.htm| title=Philadelphia History: Early Railroad Transportation| publisher=Independence Hall Association| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]
* 1887 – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad opens a branch line from Ashland to Schuyler, Nebraska. [cite book| chapterurl=http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/MWHNE/mwhne677.htm| title=History of Nebraska| chapter=XXXIII: History of Railroad Construction| accessdate=2007-10-24| url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/MWHNE/contents.htm| ]
* 1891 – Fifteen cars and two brake vans of a freight train decouple and run out of control down 70 chains of the Lithgow Zig Zag in New South Wales, Australia, destroying five cars and one brake van. [cite web| url=http://www.infobluemountains.net.au/rail/upper/zigzag_reports.htm| title=Lithgow Zig Zag| author=Martin, David| date=2003| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]
* 1892 – Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad acquires the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway. [cite web| url=http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm| publisher=Kansas City Southern Historical Society| title=The Kansas City Southern Lines| author=Pitcher, Charles| date=July 1950| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]

20th century

* 1903 – The National Transcontinental Railway Act is passed in Canada. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm| title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history| date=2007-10-05| accessdate=2007-10-24| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| ]
* 1903 – The Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway in Canada is reorganized as the Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=2007-10-08| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]
* 1980 – American Financial Enterprises, then successor of the New Haven Railroad, renews the official designation of University of Connecticut as the official repository of New Haven Railroad historical records. [cite web| url=http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/NHRR/nhtrains.htm| title=Guide to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Archives| publisher=University of Connecticut Libraries| date=2004| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]
* 1987 – Nicola Firze directs the "Locos-Symphonie", a work where the horns of various locomotives are used as musical instruments, at Gare de Lyon in Paris, France.

21st century

* 2003 – Network Rail announces it will conduct all maintenance activities in-house. [cite web| url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/729.aspx| title=Our History| publisher=Network Rail| accessdate=2007-10-24| ]

Births

* 1855 – Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923, is born (d. 1944).

Deaths

* 1940 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933, dies (b. 1857).

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