Portal:US Railways/January 25
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- 1851
– The Long Island Rail Road emerges from a receivership that was brought on by the opening of the New York and New Haven Railroad in Connecticut. - 1901 – The Lake Erie Alliance and Wheeling Railroad, later to become part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, is organized in Ohio.[1]
- 1901 – The Port Huron Southern Railroad, later to become the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad, is chartered in Michigan.[2]
- 1948
– Santa Fe locomotive #19L, leading the Super Chief, loses braking ability while preparing to depart Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; the train crashes through a steel bumper post and then a concrete wall located at the end of the dead-end track, and ultimately comes to rest with the front half of the locomotive dangling 20 feet (6 m) above the street below. - 1954 – Santa Fe's RDCs running as train number 80, the San Diegan, strike a truck in Cardiff, California.
References
- ↑ (1913) “History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company”, Annual Report. New York Central Railroad System. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ↑ Railroad History Timeline - 1900's. RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
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