Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 15
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- 1915 – The final spike is driven on the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia.
- 1919 – Support beams of the Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue line are severed and a train is derailed when molasses and debris are propelled under the railroad's superstructure in the Boston molasses disaster (pictured).
- 1953 – The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad's westbound Federal Express passenger train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster's office at Union Station in Washington, DC, but nobody is killed in the accident.
- 1990 – VIA Rail discontinues half of the passenger train services it offers across Canada, including reducing the number of transcontinental trains to one service connecting Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] After the last transcontinental passenger train travels its tracks in Ottawa, Canadian Pacific Railway officially abandons its 19.1 miles (31 km) long Carleton Place subdivision that connected Carleton Place to Nepean, Ontario.[2]
