Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 19

A JNR 117 class train on the Tōkaidō Main Line departing Tsukamoto Station in 1978

1850 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913-1920, is born (d. 1934)[1][2][3]
1850 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.[4]
1956 – Japan Railways completes electrification of the Tōkaidō Main Line (pictured), connecting Tokyo Station and Kōbe Station, for both freight and passenger service.
2001 – The Surface Transportation Board releases the final Environmental Impact Statement on Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

References

Northern Pacific (1934). Annual Report. St. Paul, MN: Northern Pacific. p. 17.
"Railway Age". September 29, 1934: 390. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Howson, Elmer T., D. A. Steel, and J. B. Tebo, editors (1922). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1922 edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman. p. 267. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Irate farmers burn freight house in 1850". Detroit Free Press. November 14, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.

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