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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on February 20.

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Events

19th century

1849 – The Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad (which eventually was absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) is chartered in Ohio to build a railroad from Portsmouth through Piketon and Chillicothe to Lancaster.[1]

20th century

1980 – Canadian Pacific Railway officially abandons its Eganville subdivision, including tracks between Payne and Douglas, Ontario.[2]
1998 – The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad files an application with the Surface Transportation Board to build new railroad track to haul coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

21st century

2006 – Chicago Transit Authority holds groundbreaking ceremonies for the Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project to repair its aging infrastructure and increase passenger capacity at Brown Line stations.

Births

1811 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843-1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, is born (d. 1847).
1848 – E. H. Harriman, the executive in charge of both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad at the turn of the 20th century, is born (d. 1909).

Deaths

2009 – James I. C. Boyd, British railway historian, dies (b. 1921).

References

Morris, J. C.; Commissioner of Railroads; Telegraphs, Ohio, eds. (December 31, 1902). Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 20, 2006.
"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. February 17, 2006. Retrieved February 20, 2006.

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