Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 13
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- 1867 – Gridley Bryant (pictured), inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels, dies (b. 1789).
- 1920 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, DC.
- 1928 The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
- 2005 CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central "High Line" elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.
