Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 4

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.

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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