May 10 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on May 10.
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[edit] 19th century
- 1869 – The golden spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
- 1873 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Granada, Colorado.
- 1893 – New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a passenger train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York, reaching 112.5 mph (181 km/h); this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph (161 km/h).
[edit] 20th century
- 1997 – Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago-Los Angeles Desert Wind passenger train.
[edit] 21st century
- 2002 – The Potters Bar rail crash occurs at Potters Bar, north of London, England, when a northbound passenger train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
- 2004 – Canadian National Railway acquires Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
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[edit] References
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
