Portal:US Railways/March 14
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- 1832
– The Delaware and Maryland Rail Road is chartered in Maryland. - 1836 – The Philadelphia and Delaware County Rail-Road is reorganized and renamed to become the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.
- 1864 – John Luther "Casey" Jones, Illinois Central Railroad locomotive engineer whose death inspired "The Ballad of Casey Jones", is born (d. 1900).
- 1872
– The Baltimore, Pittsburg and Chicago Railway is incorporated in Indiana.[1] - 1881
– The Pittsburg, Bridgeford and Buffalo Railroad is organized in Pennsylvania to construct a new railroad connecting Foxburg to Karns.[1] - 1885
– Los Angeles, California, mayor E. F. Spence approves a franchise for the construction and operation of a cable street railway.[2] - 1975 – The U.S. Railway Association announces that it had reevaluated the Northeast Corridor line segment between Groton, Connecticut, and Hills Grove, Rhode Island, and that this section of the line would be kept in operation for freight traffic.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Morris, J. C. (1902-12-31). “1870's”, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs. Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
- ↑ Lewis, B. L. (1921-05-05). The Street Railway History of Los Angeles. Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
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