2004 Train fire and explosion in Ryongchon, North Korea kills at least 160 and levels several buildings
2004 At least 170 die in train bombings in Madrid
2002 Stove mishap sets Egyption train on fire, kills over 360 people
1997 Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men
1995 "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City
1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
1994 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
1994 Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
1994 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
1994 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes New York City subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia
1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1989 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
1988 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
1985 7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California
1985 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1981 French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a New York subway train
1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)
1976 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
1976 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1976 Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24
1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1975 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop
1974 Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train
1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1973 Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station
1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom
1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1967 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5
1967 Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1967 Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
1964 Rockin' Jeff, rocker, The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train
1964 Andrew, rocker, The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train
1964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1964 Hamish, rocker, The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train
1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1963 Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed
1963 Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres
1962 Wesley Snipes, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Passenger 57, Money Train
1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
1962 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City)
1961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1960 Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California
1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Massachusetts
1956 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station
1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio
1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York
1949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died
1947 Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor, Barnaby West-Wagon Train
1947 Cat Stevens, [Yusaf Islam], rock vocalist, Peace Train, Father and Son
1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China
1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1945 Davy Jones, born in Manchester, England, singer, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville
1945 General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1944 Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1944 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1944 Gladys Knight, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, leader of Pips, Last Train
1944 Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Mississippi, guitarist, Silver Train
1944 Peter Tork, Washington D.C., singer and actor, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1942 Michael Nesmith, born in Houston, rocker, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1941 Don Cornelius, TV show host, Soul Train
1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1938 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 Denny "Scott" Miller, Bloomington, Indiana, actor, Wagon Train
1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1933 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1933 Robert Fuller, Troy, New York, actor, Laramie, Wagon Train
1932 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1932 Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, country singer, I Hear the Train Coming
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
1928 Dick "Night Train" Lane, NFL defensive back, Rams, Cards, Lions
1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
1924 Robert Horton, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena
1923 Terry Wilson, California, actor, Bill-Wagon Train
1922 Paul Scofield, born in Hurst, England, actor, Man for All Seasons, Train
1921 Sheila Ryan, born in Kansas, actress, Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury
1921 Junior Parker, born in Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter, Mystery Train
1921 Patricia Highsmith, [Plangman], US/Swiss writer, Strangers on a Train
1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1918 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee
1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68, Ivanhoe, Illinois
1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor, Last Train
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die
1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1913 Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda)
1911 Albert Remy, born in Sevres, France, actor, Grand Prix, Gigot, Train
1907 John McIntire, born in Spokane, Washington, actor, Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian
1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1904 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96
1904 Angela Baddeley, born in London, England, actress, Ghost Train, Tom Jones
1904 1st main line electric train in U.K. (Liverpool to Southport)
1903 "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released
1903 Frank McGrath, Mound City, Missouri, actor, Wagon Train
1901 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1900 Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor, Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train
1900 John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
1899 Duke Ellington, Washington D.C., [Edward Kennedy], bandleader, Take A Train
1897 Basil Radford, born in Chester, England, actor, Whiskey Galore, Night Train
1896 Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist, The Ghost Train
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1890 Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1889 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east
1888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1888 Marion Lorne, Philadelphia, actress, Strangers on a Train, Girl Rush
1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1880 Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train
1879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1876 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress, Un Soir Un Train
1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri
1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
1866 1st train robbery in U.S. (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1865 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1864 Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1864 Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia
1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating
1861 President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C.
1855 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1855 1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport Iowa
1855 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad)
1847 Jesse James, Missouri, bank/train robber, son of a clergyman
1847 Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1843 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1841 1st wagon train arrives in California
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California
1833 Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1831 1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York)
1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
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