Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 16

Norfolk & Western Railway Class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive at the New York World's Fair in 1939

1807 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, is born (died 1875).[1][2]
1914 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, is born (died 2001).
1916 – Canadian Pacific Railway's Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass is opened for regular operations.
2017 – E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993-1998, president of Canadian National Railway 2003-2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012-2017 and CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017, dies (born 1944)[3]

References

"Obituary: William H. Aspinwall" (PDF). New York Times. January 19, 1875. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
Levy, D.A. (February 14, 2004). "William Henry Aspinwall". The Maritime Heritage Project. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
Ducharme, Jamie (December 16, 2017). "CSX CEO Hunter Harrison Dies at 73, Company Confirms". Forbes. Retrieved December 22, 2017.

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