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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 14.

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April 13
April 14
April 15

Events

19th century

1834 – The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.
1881 – The Oregon Short Line Railroad is established to build a rail connection between Granger, Wyoming, and Huntington, Oregon.

20th century

1929 – The Hanshin Amagasaki Kaigan Line connecting Higashihama station with Deyashiki, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, is opened.

21st century

2005 – Nineteen cars of a southbound Union Pacific train operating on Canadian National Railway tracks south of Superior, Wisconsin, derail and cause a forest fire near Solon Springs, Wisconsin.

Deaths

1914– William Whyte, vice president of Canadian Pacific Railway 1910-1911, dies (b. 1843).

References

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