1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1988 George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90
1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)
1982 National railroad strike in Belgium
1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central
1967 Edward Hopper, U.S. painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1948 Donald Brewer, born in Flint, Michigan, rock drummer, Grand Funk Railroad
1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike
1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
1917 U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1898 George Alpert, railroad executive
1897 Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1882 Edward Hopper, U.S. painter, House by the Railroad
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1877 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike
1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1877 General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still
1877 U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1873 Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by J. B. Sutherland
1867 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City
1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad
1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad
1862 U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1853 Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1850 Henry Edwards Huntington, U.S., railroad exec
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad)
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
1839 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
1838 James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur, Great Northern Railroad
1836 Jay Gould, U.S. railroad executive, financier
1834 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)
1832 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1831 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC
1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore
1827 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered
1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts
1825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)
1822 Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad
1821 William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1815 New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens)
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire, B and O railroad
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