Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 1

1879 – Great Britain's Queen Victoria opens the Tay Rail Bridge (pictured), at the time the longest bridge in the world, across the Firth of Tay in Scotland.
1949 – Japanese National Railways is organized.
2005 – Genesee and Wyoming takes ownership and begins operations of 14 railroads from Rail Management Corporation.
2005 – Joseph H. Boardman, former Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation, begins his duties as Administrator for the United States Federal Railroad Administration (a division of the USDOT).

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