Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 23

1855 – The Hudson and Boston Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad in New York.
1893 – Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.
1945 – The Treuchtlingen railway station in Bavaria is bombed during World War II; with over 600 killed and 1500 injured, it is the worst railroad disaster in German history.

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