Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 13

William Jackson Palmer before 1908

1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.[1][2]
1909 – William Jackson Palmer (pictured), builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.[3]
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.

References

"Meath Railway History". Meath on Track. Retrieved March 13, 2007.
"Railways of Meath". Irish Identity. Retrieved March 13, 2009.
"Railroad History Timeline: 1970-1979". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved March 13, 2007.

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