Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 16

California Southern's San Bernardino station

1847 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843-1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, dies (b. 1811).
1897 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946-1948, is born (d. 1978).
1916 – The two-story station opened by the California Southern Railroad in San Bernardino, California, (pictured) is destroyed by fire.[1]
2004 – The northbound high speed tilt train Spirit of Townsville from Brisbane, bound for Cairns, failed to slow down for a very sharp 60 km/h (37 mph) curve at Rosedale, Queensland, Australia, derailing the train; remarkably, although seven of the train's passenger cars left the tracks, no fatalities were reported from the Rosedale train crash.

References

San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). "A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot". Retrieved July 17, 2006.

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