Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 15

1810 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, is born.
1889 – A. Philip Randolph, who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, is born (d. 1979).
1907 – William N. Page is named president of the newly formed Virginian Railway.
2005 – Amtrak cancels all Acela Express (pictured) trains between Washington, DC, New York City and Boston as cracks are found in the brakes on a majority of the trainsets' coaches.

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