Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 29

1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, the worst train disaster in America to date, occurs in Ohio when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway passenger train falls into the Ashtabula River as the bridge collapsed under the train.
1939 – The Pioneer Zephyr streamliner trainset crosses the one million mile (1.6 million km) mark in revenue service near Council Bluffs, Iowa (memorial postal cover shown).
1967 – The first steam locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay locomotive.

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