Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 6/More

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on May 6.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1853 – The Norwalk rail accident becomes the first major U.S. railroad bridge disaster when an engineer passes a red signal and drives his train through an open swing bridge in Connecticut.[1]
1856 – The newly constructed sidewheeler Effie Afton runs into one of the supports for the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, causing a fire that destroys the bridge just two weeks after it had opened.[2]
1862 – The bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is passed by the United States House of Representatives.
1895 – Service begins on the Chicago "L" Northwest Branch as far as Robey Street (Damen Avenue).[3]

1983 – The last Georgia Railroad mixed train is operated by the Seaboard System Railroad.
1994 – The Channel Tunnel linking England and France officially opens.

1881 – Victor V. Boatner, president of Peoria and Pekin Union Railway 1921-, Chicago Great Western Railway 1929-1931 (d. 1950).

Haine, Edgar A. (1994). "The first of many railroad bridge disasters: South Norwalk, Conn–May 1853–56 dead". Railroad Wrecks. p. 34 – via Google Books.
Willard, John (January 31, 2006). "Dinner marks 150th birthday of the first railroad crossing on the Mississippi". Quad City Times. Retrieved January 31, 2006.
"Paulina Connector". Chicago "L".org. Retrieved August 18, 2013.

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