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Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 25
- October 25
Pioneer circa 1898
- 1848 – The first westbound train from Chicago, Illinois, pulled by the locomotive Pioneer (pictured), departs on the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (the oldest predecessor of Chicago and North Western Railway).
- 1854 – The Carillon and Grenville Railway, in Canada, opens.
- 1882 – The Seney Syndicate sells the Nickel Plate Road to William H. Vanderbilt, who also controlled the New York Central system, for $7.2 million.
- 1904 – The first 200-kilometre (120 mi) section of the Baghdad Railway opens.
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