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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 8.
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Events
19th century
- 1832 – The Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad is chartered in Virginia.[1]
- 1881 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico,[2] making a connection with Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to complete a second transcontinental route across the United States.[3]
20th century
- 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.[4]
21st century
- 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.[5]
References
- "Today in Railroad History". Railfanning.org. 2005. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
- 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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