Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 24/More

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 24.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1853 – The Junction Railroad line from Ohio City to Toledo, Ohio, opens as part of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad.[1]
1859 – The Chestnut and Walnut Street Railway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is extended to 22nd Street.[2]
1887 – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad opens a branch line from Ashland to Schuyler, Nebraska.[3]
1891 – Fifteen cars and two brake vans of a freight train decouple and run out of control down 70 chains of the Lithgow Zig Zag in New South Wales, Australia, destroying five cars and one brake van.[4]
1892 – Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad acquires the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway.[5]

1903 – The National Transcontinental Railway Act is passed in Canada.[6]
1903 – The Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway in Canada is reorganized as the Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway.[7]
1980 – American Financial Enterprises, then successor of the New Haven Railroad, renews the official designation of University of Connecticut as the official repository of New Haven Railroad historical records.[8]
1987 – Nicola Firze directs the Locos-Symphonie, a work where the horns of various locomotives are used as musical instruments, at Gare de Lyon in Paris, France.

2003 – Network Rail announces it will conduct all maintenance activities in-house.[9]

1855 – Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923, is born (d. 1944).

1940 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933, dies (b. 1857).

"History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". 1913 Annual Report. New York Central Railroad. 1913. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"Philadelphia History: Early Railroad Transportation". Independence Hall Association. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"XXXIII: History of Railroad Construction". History of Nebraska. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
Martin, David (2003). "Lithgow Zig Zag". Retrieved 2007-10-24.
Pitcher, Charles (July 1950). "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"Guide to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Archives". University of Connecticut Libraries. 2004. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"Our History". Network Rail. Retrieved 2007-10-24.

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