Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 27
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- 1947 – After a complete overhaul, Illinois Central's Green Diamond trainset re-enters active service, this time between Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, as the Miss-Lou passenger train.
- 1970 – The first double-deck passenger cars to operate in regular service on Canadian passenger trains enter service in Montreal.[1]
- 1987 – Construction begins in Germany on the Berlin U-Bahn's U8 (map shown) line extension to Paracelsus-Bad.
- 1998 – Spain's Madrid Metro opens the section between Esperanza and Mar de Cristal on Line 4.
