Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 16
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- November 16
- 1897 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946-1948, is born (d. 1978).
- 1916 – The two-story station opened by the California Southern Railroad in San Bernardino, California, (pictured) is destroyed by fire.[1]
- 2004 – The northbound high speed tilt train Spirit of Townsville from Brisbane, bound for Cairns, failed to slow down for a very sharp 60 km/h curve at Rosedale, Queensland, Australia, derailing the train; remarkably, although seven of the train's passenger cars left the tracks, no fatalities were reported from the Rosedale train crash.
[edit] See also
- November 16 in rail transport
[edit] References
- ^ San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot. Retrieved on July 17, 2006.
