Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 26

1917 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to nationalize American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.
1976 – The second American Freedom Train (pictured) tour ends in Miami, Florida.
1989 – Buck Crump, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, 1955-1964 and 1966, dies (b. 1904).

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