January 8 in rail transport
- January 8 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1855 – The first through train travels the entire distance from Chicago to the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
* 1863 – Ground is broken by the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, California, on the western half of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America. [cite book| author=Ambrose, Stephen E.| title=Nothing Like It in the World| publisher=Simon & Schuster| year=2000| location=New York, NY| pages=p 106| id=ISBN 0-7432-0317-8| ]
20th century
* 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
21st century
Births
* 1840 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway 1877-1902 (d. 1905).
Deaths
* 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1878).
References
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