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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 23.
Events[edit]
19th century[edit]
- 1856 – The line that is now Belgian railway line 161 is completed and opened connecting Brussels-North and Namur stations.[1]
- 1874 – The first trains operate on the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad, making it the first narrow gauge railroad to operate in California.[2]
- 1880 – The California Southern Railroad is chartered to connect San Diego to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.[3]
20th century[edit]
- 1917 – The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal.[4][5]
- 1924 – Two trolley cars of the Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa collide head-on due to a misunderstanding in operations around track maintenance work.[6]
- 1936 – One of the new ten-car Denver Zephyr trainsets makes a special run nonstop from Chicago to Denver, breaking the 1934 speed record of the Pioneer Zephyr between the two cities.[7][8][9][10][11]
- 1979 – Amtrak's Dearborn, Michigan, station opens.[12]
21st century[edit]
- 2004 – The Chūetsu earthquake, 6.8 magnitude, in Japan causes the first derailment of a Shinkansen train; the Jōetsu Shinkansen train was traveling 200 km/h (120 mph) on the Tokyo-Niigata line, but no fatalities were reported.
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References[edit]
- ^ "Ligne 161: Bruxelles-Nord - Namur". Chemins de fer Belges (in Dutch).
- ^ Monterey County Historical Society (2006). "The Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad". Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ^ Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. ISBN 0-88418-000-X.
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ^ "Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada" (Press release). Railway Association of Canada. October 23, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
- ^ "Head on at Deschenes". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ^ Thompson, Philip (October 12, 1936). "Denver Zephyr To Try For New Speed Record". Chicago Tribune. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Super Zephyr Breaks Mark". The Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colorado. Associated Press. October 24, 1936. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering. Volume 2, 1955-1966. p. 72.
- ^ Schafer, Mike; Welsh, Joe (1997). Classic American Streamliners. Osceola, Wisconsin: MBI Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 0-7603-0377-0.
- ^ "New Burlington Streamliner Sets Thousand-Mile Mark". Detroit Free Press. October 25, 1936. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Railroad History Timeline: 1970-1979". Retrieved October 23, 2006.
