November 9 in rail transport

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 9.

[edit] Events

1863 – Gov. Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad's first locomotive, enters service in California.^[1]
1885 – The last spike is driven on the California Southern Railroad between Barstow and San Bernardino through Cajon Pass, completing the connection to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.^[2]

1903 – The 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway opens in India.
1933 – Canadian National Railway's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, opens.
1953 – Canadian National Railway extends the line from Lynn Lake to Sherridon, Manitoba.
1953 – Canadian Pacific Railway introduces Budd Rail Diesel Car service, "Dayliners", for lighter passenger train duties on some branch lines.
1963 – Two passenger trains collide with a derailed freight train on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan; the Yokohama rail crash results in 161 deaths.
1998 – The St. Thomas and Eastern Railway begins operations on a former Canadian National Railway branch line between St. Thomas and Delhi, Ontario.

1803 – Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863, is born (d. 1883).
1869 – Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1920-1939, is born (d. 1939).^[3]

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved November 8, 2005.
Dodge, Richard V.; San Diego Railroad Museum (March 5, 2000), Perris and its Railroad. Retrieved November 8, 2005.
Northern Railways of India, Kalka-Shimla Railway. Retrieved November 8, 2005.

^ Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.
^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p 74.
^ Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1939.