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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 18.
Events
[edit]19th century
[edit]- 1888 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa).[1]
- 1889 – The Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway.[2]
- 1893 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens connecting Ottawa and Arnprior.[1]
- 1899 – New Haven Railroad signs a deal with Sanderson & Porter, construction contractors, acquiring control of the People's Tramway in Connecticut.
20th century
[edit]- 1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 miles per hour (181 km/h) near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.[3]
- 1970 – The Flying Scotsman locomotive and train on its North American tour travels from Ottawa to Montreal, where it is then displayed near Vertu railway station.[1]
- 1972 – The São Paulo Metro is inaugurated.
- 1982 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
- 1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, departs with six Canadian National Railway diesel locomotives pulling 64 railroad cars and caboose number 79822.[4]
- 1999 – Trillium Rail subsidiary Port Colborne Terminal Railway begins operations on 41 miles (66 km) of track in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.[3]
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- 1860 – Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway, dies (b. 1805).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 7, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
- ^ Great Northern Railway Historical Society. "GN History". Retrieved September 18, 2005.
- ^ a b "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 16, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2005.
- ^ Smith, Ivan (1998). "Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History". Railways of Canada Archives. Retrieved September 18, 2005.