Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 31
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- 1877 – The first 2 ft (609.6 mm) narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations.
- 1955 – The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad begins experiments with air conditioning on its subway cars, a technology that the New York City Subway system declared impractical before then.
- 1963 – Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad takes control of Ann Arbor Railroad, in Michigan.
- 2004 – The United States Surface Transportation Board renews the authority of TTX Corporation to continue pooling and leasing railroad rolling stock for ten more years, over the protests of other rolling stock leasing companies.
