Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 1

1813 – Mark Hopkins (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California that helped build the Central Pacific Railroad's portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, is born (d. 1878).
1865 – The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
1876 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2003 – The Stinnes Group takes over operations of Deutsche Bahn in Germany.

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