Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 28
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July 28
- 1862 – The first railway post office car in North America is operated over the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; the mail is transferred to stagecoach in St. Joseph, Missouri, for the rest of the journey to California.[1]
- 1982 – Fire destroys the Harrisonburg, Virginia, offices of the former Chesapeake Western Railway, which had been merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1954.
- 1996 – The Talleyrand Terminal Railroad (a subsidiary of Genesee and Wyoming, Inc.) begins operations in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 2005 – An explosion destroys a carriage of an express train near the town of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 13 people. See: 2005 Jaunpur train bombing.
[edit] See also
- July 28 in rail transport
[edit] References
- ^ (Fall 2006) "First as well as fast". Classic Trains 7 (3): p 27. ISSN 1527-0718.
