Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 14

1824 – James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).
1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton (pictured), signer of the Declaration of Independence and a co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, dies (b. 1737).
1960 – A steam locomotive-hauled passenger train incorrectly departs from a station and runs into a diesel locomotive-powered freight train in northeastern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. See: Stéblová train disaster.

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