Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 18

1869 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway in Nova Scotia officially opens between Annapolis and Grand Pre.
1883 – Construction on the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary, Alberta.
1890 – The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway, begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine.
1935 – In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, officials of the Lancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey, frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two organizations.

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