Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 13
- March 13
- 1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.[1][2]
- 1909 – William Jackson Palmer (pictured), builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
- 1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.[3]
- 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Meath Railway History". Meath on Track. Retrieved March 13, 2007.
- ^ "Railways of Meath". Irish Identity. Retrieved March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Railroad History Timeline: 1970-1979". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved March 13, 2007.