Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 16

Canadian Pacific 2816 at a stop in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, in 2007

1890 – C. P. Couch, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1939-1941, is born (d. 1955).
1918 – Grand Trunk Railway's freight sheds in Ottawa are destroyed by fire; the loss is estimated at $85,000.
1984 – The first full revenue Chicago and North Western Railway coal train leaves the Powder River Basin with a load from the North Antelope Mine.[1]
2001 – After a complete restoration, Canadian Pacific 2816 (pictured), a 4-6-4 steam locomotive, operates under its own power for the first time in nearly 40 years.

References

Feurer, Keith (Summer 2004). "Look who came out on top". North Western Lines (Chicago and North Western Railway Historical Society). 32 (1): 16–39. ISSN 0279-5000.

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