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1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service

1974 Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington

1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)

1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77

1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal

1935 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service

1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana

1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I

1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY

1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks

1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot

1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co

1892 Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)

1883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont

1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized

1878 California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service

1869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR

1864 [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer, Ballad of Casey Jones

1863 RR and ferry connection between San Francisco and Oakland inaugurated

1859 Grading started for Market Street RR

1838 James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur, Great Northern Railroad

1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec

1828 Construction begins on B and O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st U.S. passenger RR

1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive


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