Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 8

1864 – Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (pictured), is born (d. 1913).
1880 – The Miami Valley Railway, in Ohio, is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway.
1975 – Two trains collide on a single-track stretch between Lenggries and Munich due to a dispatcher error. 41 die and 122 are injured.
2005 – Union Pacific Railroad (UP) begins a three-day celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to commemorate the return to excursion service of Union Pacific 844 after a major overhaul. The locomotive was purchased by UP in 1944 and has never been retired from service.

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