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- December 4
![A Hiawatha Line train near Cedar/Riverside station](../../../I/Hiawatha_LRV.jpg.webp)
A Hiawatha Line train near Cedar/Riverside station
- 1938 – The IRT Sixth Avenue Line in New York City, the second elevated railway in Manhattan, is permanently closed.
- 1978 – Union Pacific Railroad and Chicago and North Western Railway jointly announce an agreement to build into Wyoming's Powder River Basin to access the numerous coal mines in the area.[1]
- 1996 – Passenger service resumes through the Channel Tunnel, after a fire damaged the tunnel on November 18.
- 2004 – The second phase of the Hiawatha Line (pictured) opens, connecting Minneapolis, Minnesota, to MSP Airport and the Mall of America in Bloomington.
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