Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 29
- December 29
- 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, the worst train disaster in America to date, occurs in Ohio when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway passenger train falls into the Ashtabula River as the bridge collapsed under the train.
- 1904 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Greenwich Tramway and New York and Stamford Railway, extending its streetcar network through Greenwich, Connecticut, into New Rochelle, New York.[1]
- 1939 – The Pioneer Zephyr streamliner trainset (pictured) crosses the one million mile (1.6 million km) mark in revenue service near Council Bluffs, Iowa.
- 1967 – The first steam locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay locomotive.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Government Printing Office (1914). New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.: Evidence Taken Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Vol. II. pp. 2366–2374, 2394–2397 – via Google Books.