Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 18

1830 – In a race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Tom Thumb and a stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, the horse and coach wins.
1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph (181 km/h) near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.
1982 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, departs with six Canadian National Railway diesel locomotives pulling 64 railroad cars and caboose number 79822.

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