Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 8

Map of Grand Trunk Pacific in 1910

1881 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico,[1] making a connection with Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to complete a second transcontinental route across the United States.[2]
1904 – The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, Utah, for the railroad's mainline.
1920 – The board of directors for Canadian National Railway assumes management control of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (map pictured).[3]
2006 – Jean-Paul Denanot, president of the Limousin region of France, announces a new TGV service to begin by the following winter between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Lille via Limoges and Orléans.[4]

References

Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.
"Transcontinental, Railroad, Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Railway Act". American Western History Museums. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. February 9, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
"8 mars dans les chemins de fer". French language Wikipedia (in French). June 30, 2006. Retrieved March 8, 2007.

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