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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 9.

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Events

19th century

1851 – The Bytown and Prescott Railway holds official groundbreaking ceremonies at the future site of the McTaggert Street station.[1]
1877 – The steam locomotive Countess of Dufferin, the first locomotive to operate in Manitoba and the first locomotive on the Canadian prairies, arrives aboard a barge in St. Boniface (now an electoral district of Winnipeg).[2]

20th century

1902 – The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway, predecessor of the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, is chartered in Texas.
1909 – The Alaska Northern Railroad Company (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) purchases the assets of the bankrupt Alaska Central Railway and subsequently extends the line northward another 34 kilometres (21 mi).

21st century

2001 – Canadian National Railway (CN) purchases Wisconsin Central for $1.2 billion, giving CN a direct rail link to Chicago, Illinois.

Births

1865 – George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931, is born (d. 1945).

References

"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 26, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006.
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006.

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