Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 18
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- 1855 – The second Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge opens for rail traffic; the bridge had rails that allowed trains of three different gauges to operate over it.
- 1911 – David Moffat, Colorado financier and head of nine railroads, dies (b. 1839).
- 1950 – Wind blows smoke and freshly fallen snow to obscure the headlight on a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train doing switching maneuvers at Ashton, Ontario; the apparently blinking light is misinterpreted as a clear signal by the engineer of an opposing train who throttles up and runs into passenger cars that were still standing on the mainline.[1]
- 2005 – Joseph H. Boardman, head of the New York State Department of Transportation, is nominated to lead the United States Federal Railroad Administration.
[edit] See also
- March 18 in rail transport
[edit] References
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (February 2006), Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area: 1950, March 18 - Canadian Pacific - Ashton. Retrieved March 18, 2006.
