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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 10.
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Events
19th century
- 1853 – Canada's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario, to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.
- 1862 – Chicago and North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin.[1]
- 1887 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's locomotive to heat the passenger cars instead of coal or wood stoves in each car.
20th century
- 1909 – Louis Brennan successfully demonstrates his gyroscopically-balanced monorail system, which he designed for military use and patented in 1903, at Gillingham, England.
- 1937 – Yatsumori Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is opened.
- 1979 – 1979 Mississauga train derailment A CP Rail train develops a hot box and derails 24 cars carrying hazardous materials near Mississauga, Ontario; almost 250,000 people are evacuated for up to five days at a time while cleanup commences.
- 1996 – Amtrak operates its first Roadrailer in regular revenue service hauled behind the Three Rivers from Chicago, Illinois, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2]
Deaths
- 1946 – Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, dies (b. 1879).
References
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