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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 16.

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Events

19th century

1876 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway officially changes its name to Miami Valley Railway.[1]
1882 – The Nickel Plate Road runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois.

20th century

1963 – The Nickel Plate Road together with the Wabash Railroad and several smaller carriers are merged with the profitable Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).

Births

1803 – Robert Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder, is born (d. 1859).

Deaths

1938 – Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909-1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925-1931, dies (b. 1870).

References

Hauck, John W. (1986). Narrow Gauge in Ohio. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing. ISBN 0-87108-629-8.

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