The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad makes first bid for a locomotive of American manufacture by placing advertisements in the Baltimore American.
January 04, 1877
Railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt dies at the age of 83. He was probably the richest man in the world at that time.
January 04, 1955
Last steam run on the Milwaukee Road when 2-8-4 no. 239 arrives in St. Paul.[:(]
January 04, 1962
1st automated subway train New York City.
January 04, 1970
Last run for Erie Lackawanna’s Lake Cities.
January 04, 1987
16 are killed when Amtrak’s northbound Colonial collides with errant Conrail diesels which had run through a stop signal and a switch at Chase, Maryland.
The Long Island Railroad creates the first Piggyback service with a train consisting of flatcars for carrying farmer’s wagons and horses and a coach for teamsters.
January 05, 1893
The Great Northern Railroad completed it’s line from the Great Lakes to Everett, Washington.
January 05, 1905
Baltimore & Ohio introduces first electric freight locomotive.
January 05, 1912
Celilo Bridge completed (SP&S Ry).
January 05, 1956
General Motors introduces the Aerotrain.
January 05, 1984
Delaware & Hudson becomes part of Guilford Transportation Industries.
First robbery of a train enroute. $500,000 in bonds, specie and government securities were taken from an Adams Express company safe on the New Haven Railroad.
January 06, 1893
Great Northern Railway completes transcontinental route at Everett, Washington.
January 06, 1936
Great Northern Steamship Co. (GNPSS) dissolved.
January 06, 1985
Federal Railroad Administration turns over ownership of the Alaska Railroad to the state of Alaska.
January 6, 1838 On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse demonstrated for the first time his telegraph, at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The famous “What hath God wrought” telegram, the first official telegram, between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, wouldn’t be sent until 1843, possibly because Morse had to have a skeptical Congress fund it.
NS train 192 hits parked train P22 in Granitville,SC. 9 people died that day including 192’s engineer. The cause of the wreck was a open switch which was left by P22.
All three engines are still parked in Augusta for unknown reasons.
They are but its not a vantage point to take pictures. Trees are in the way of the two SD60’s when I saw them 12/29/06. The GP59 is feet from them but I don’t belive you can see them as good as the SD60’s. You can only get them on their sides.
They can be seen off of New Savanna Road which is of Laney Walker Blvd. The engines should be to your right look through the trees and you should see 2 engines one with a hood door opened headed elephant style and then you found 6593 and 6653.
On January 8, 1991, one person was killed and 248 injured, when a London commuter train crashed into the buffers at a station. (From bellsouth.net “On This Date in History”.)
The Colorado & Southern Railway begins operation. Predecessors are the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway (formerly the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad) and the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway.
The Supreme Court rules that states cannot forbid racial segregation on public transportation vehicles. The court held that segregation is not a matter for states to decide and that it places a burden on interstate commerce.
January 14, 1981
President Reagan signs into law legislation authorizing transfer of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska.
First American built locomotive to pull a passenger train, the Best Friend of Charelston, runs from Charelston to Hamburg, South Carolina. The train also provided the first recorded railroad honeymoon trip - Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Pierson of Ramapo, New York.
January 15, 1908
Portland & Seattle (P&S) opens Cliffs, Washington to Lyle, Washington.
January 15, 1952
Last passenger run on the Astoria Line (SP&S Ry).[:(]
January 15, 1953
Pennsylvania’s GG1 no. 4876 ends up in the Washington Union Station basement when the Federal Express runs away.
January 15, 1990
VIA cuts half of it’s passenger network. Last run for the Canadian.[:(]