Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 16

1807 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, is born
1914 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the 1950s, is born (d. 2001).
1916 – Canadian Pacific Railway's Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass is opened for regular operations.

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