Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 4

1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt (pictured), American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads, dies (b. 1794).
1948 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad debut a new lightweight passenger car consist for the Golden State passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
2000 – A northbound BM92 multiple unit and a southbound passenger train headed by a Di 3 locomotive collides on Norway's Rørosbanen line near Åsta station, killing 19 people.
2005 – Bombardier receives a contract from SNCF for €350 million to build 100 new regional trainsets.

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