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Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 19
- February 19
Pere Marquette 1225 on an excursion run in 2008
- 1854 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, dies (b. 1810).
- 1862 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road, a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road and the first steam locomotive-powered railroad to reach Coney Island, is incorporated.
- 1983 – Pere Marquette 1225 (pictured) is moved from the campus of Michigan State University to the former Ann Arbor Railroad shops at Owosso, Michigan, to begin its restoration to operating condition.
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