June 13 in rail transport

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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 13.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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[edit] 19th century

• 1842   Queen Victoria made her first journey by rail (Slough to Paddington).

[edit] 20th century

• 1920   Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, DC.
• 1928   The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
• 1942   Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City.
• 1931   Switzerland's Brienz Rothorn Bahn reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I.

[edit] 21st century

• 2005   CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central "High Line" elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.

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[edit] Deaths

• 1867 – Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels, dies (b. 1789).

[edit] References