July 8 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 8.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 19th century
- 1853 – The Northern Indiana Railroad is formed through the merger of several smaller railroads in Indiana and Ohio.
- 1886 – Russian Tsar Alexander III establishes Railway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction.[1]
- 1895 – The Delagoa Bay Railway, in South Africa, opens.
[edit] 20th century
- 1905 – Death Valley Scotty pays $5,500 in cash to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway general passenger agent J. J. Byrne to charter the Scott Special.[2][3]
- 1908 – Construction begins on the Belt Line railway in Hull, Ontario.
[edit] 21st century
[edit] Births
- 1881 – Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern US railroads, is born (d. 1935).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ "Railway Worker Day marked in Russia", ITAR-TASS, 2006-08-06. Retrieved on 2006-08-07.
- ^ Signor, John R., compiler (first quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet 12 (1): p 17–29. (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
- ^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p 389-392.
