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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 23.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1856 – The line that is now Belgian railway line 161 is completed and opened connecting Brussels-North and Namur stations.[1]
1874 – The first trains operate on the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad, making it the first narrow gauge railroad to operate in California.[2]
1880 – The California Southern Railroad is chartered to connect San Diego to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.[3]

1917 – The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal.[4][5]
1924 – Two trolley cars of the Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa collide head-on due to a misunderstanding in operations around track maintenance work.[6]
1936 – One of the new ten-car Denver Zephyr trainsets makes a special run nonstop from Chicago to Denver, breaking the 1934 speed record of the Pioneer Zephyr between the two cities.[7][8][9][10][11]
1979 – Amtrak's Dearborn, Michigan, station opens.[12]

2004 – The Chūetsu earthquake, 6.8 magnitude, in Japan causes the first derailment of a Shinkansen train; the Jōetsu Shinkansen train was traveling 200 km/h (120 mph) on the Tokyo-Niigata line, but no fatalities were reported.

"Ligne 161: Bruxelles-Nord - Namur". Chemins de fer Belges (in Dutch).
Monterey County Historical Society (2006). "The Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad". Retrieved October 23, 2006.
Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. ISBN 0-88418-000-X.
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
"Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada" (Press release). Railway Association of Canada. October 23, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
"Head on at Deschenes". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
Thompson, Philip (October 12, 1936). "Denver Zephyr To Try For New Speed Record". Chicago Tribune. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
"Super Zephyr Breaks Mark". The Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colorado. Associated Press. October 24, 1936. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering. Volume 2, 1955-1966. p. 72.
Schafer, Mike; Welsh, Joe (1997). Classic American Streamliners. Osceola, Wisconsin: MBI Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 0-7603-0377-0.
"New Burlington Streamliner Sets Thousand-Mile Mark". Detroit Free Press. October 25, 1936. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
"Railroad History Timeline: 1970-1979". Retrieved October 23, 2006.

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