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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on December 7.

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Events

1835 – The Ludwigs-Eisenbahn starts the first regular passenger service between Nuremberg and Fürth using a steam locomotive.

1906 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.[1]
1946 – The power car from the M-10002 streamliner trainset is sold to Northrup-Hendy for gas turbine train testing.
1993 – Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six and injuring 19. The event becomes known as the Long Island Rail Road massacre.[2]

2005 – QJ 7081 pulls the world's last regularly scheduled passenger train behind a steam locomotive on a mainline railroad when it pulls a train between Daban and Chabuga, China.

1842 – George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903–1909, is born (d. 1910).

Moody's Manual of Investments: Railroad Securities. Moody's Investors Service. 1931. p. 84. Retrieved December 6, 2015 – via Google Books.
Clines, Francis X. (December 9, 1993). "Death on the L.I.R.R.: The Rampage; Gunman in a Train Aisle Passes Out Death". The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2009.

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