Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 12
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- 1885 – The first train to travel the entire route of California Southern Railroad's track through Cajon Pass carries rails from Barstow to Riverside.[1]
- 1900 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1881-1884, dies (b. 1835).
- 1904 – The 157th Street station on New York City Subway's IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line opens.
- 1931 – The Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull, the world's oldest surviving operable steam locomotive, by operating its mechanism with compressed air.
[edit] See also
- November 12 in rail transport
[edit] References
- ^ Duke, Donald, and Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books, p 32. ISBN 87095-009-6.
