Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 7

Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive "Gabriel" circa 1870

1860 – The Royal Bavarian State Railways opens connecting Rosenheim, Prien and Traunstein.
1867 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway (pictured) is incorporated in Nova Scotia.[1]
1913 – Tracklaying begins on the Graysonia, Nashville and Ashdown Railroad (a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway) between Murfreesboro and Shawmut, Arkansas.[2]
1957 – The Flying Yankee trainset is retired from revenue service on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads.

References

Smith, Ivan (1998). "Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History (1850- 1899)". The Railways of Canada Archives. Retrieved May 5, 2006.
Pitcher, Charles; Manager of DOT Compliance, Kansas City Southern Railway (reprinted by the Kansas City Southern Historical Society). "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Retrieved May 5, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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