Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 23

Westinghouse air brake control

1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake (pictured).
1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.[1]
1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.[2]
2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in northern Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100-metre (330 ft) deep ravine on the Morača river.

References

"Northwestern Elevated (1893-1924)". Chicago "L".org. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
"Western Pacific History". Feather River Rail Society/Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society. 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2006.

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