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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on December 26.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1917 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to nationalize American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.[2]
1927 – Ise Railway completes electrification of the Iseden Kambe Line.
1976 – The second American Freedom Train tour ends in Miami, Florida.

2005 – The first section of Guangzhou Metro Line 4 opens connecting Wanshengwei to Xinzao.

1854 – Charles Frederick Crocker, son of Charles Crocker of California's Big Four railroaders, president of San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad, is born (d. 1897).[3]

1989 – Buck Crump, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, 1955-1964 and 1966, dies (b. 1904).[4]

Penning, Rowin (2012). "6 december 1876". Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
Presidential Proclamation 1419, December 26, 1917, under authority of the Army Appropriation Act, 39 Stat. 45, August 29, 1916.
"C. F. Crocker Dead. Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railway Expires in San Mateo, California". New York Times. July 18, 1897. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
"Norris Roy Crump". Historica Canada: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Anthony Wilson-Smith.

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