Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 12

San Bernardino station in 1915; at the western end of Cajon Pass

1885 – The first train to travel the entire route of California Southern Railroad's track through Cajon Pass (pictured) carries a shipment of rails from Barstow to Riverside.[1]
1900 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1881–1884, dies (b. 1835).
1904 – The 157th Street station on New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line opens.
1931 – The Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull, the world's oldest surviving operable steam locomotive, by operating its mechanism with compressed air.

References

Duke, Donald & Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. p. 32. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.

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