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Promotional flyer published by the Santa Fe to commemorate the Scott Special

1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, Illinois, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles, California.[1][2]
1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.
1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.

References

Signor, John R., compiler (First Quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. 12 (1): 17–29.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.

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