From the “Today In History” Website:
May 24
1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States begins service between Baltimore and Elliott’s Mills, Maryland.
Happy Birthday American Passenger Train. [:)]
I wish you many, many more. [:)]
And I also hope to see you return to your former glory. (Gas prices may help you do this.)
Yes! I really hope the passenger train returns to its former glory too! I’ll have to do something special for this day. I think I have a book on the building of the transcontinental railroad. Reading that should be good. [bday]
Willy
I had no idea the first passenger railway in the US was in Md, I would have thought NY or something.
First Railway in Canada was the Champlain and St.Lawrence 1836 I think?
Early 1830s anyhow.
[bday] HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PASSENGER TRAIN!!
Yeah, it WOULD be nice to see passenger trains make a comback!!
HEY, that WOULD drive down the price of gasoline, HOPEFULLY!!
Willy [:)]
We expect a 2 page book report by Friday. [}:)] [:D] [;)]
Don’t forget footnotes and references. [;)] [8D] [:D] [:)] [:p]
Just Kidding. [:D] [:D] [:D]
If I remember correctly, New York’s first passenger railway was 1832. Were not both the upstate Albanay-Schenectity line that boasted the De Witt Clinton and the first horsecar operation of the New York and Harlem started that year?
…Seeing Jim’s post above reminded me of some old data of original railroad dates in one of my books: “A stretch of rusty rails resting on original stone ties are all that remains of one of America’s first railroads. It is part of the Camden & South Amboy, the first railroad in New Jersey. Built in 1831.” This bit of info and including a pic of the above stretch…is mentioned in TRAINS’ album of Railroad Photographs, Book 8 Pennsy RR. by Kalmbach Publishing Co…1944. Item: Also contains a photo of GG-1 original prototype in action…[This same engine is now in the Pennsylvania RR museum in Strasburgh, Pa.]…Sorry, off message a bit but this is an elderly Passenger engine of almost 70 years ago.
Happy birthday to you!
Long live passenger/commuter service…
Or i’m toast…