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- 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, Illinois, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles, California.[1][2]
- 1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.
- 1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
- 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeper cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
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[edit] References
- ^ Signor, John R., compiler (first quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet 12 (1): p 17-29. (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
- ^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p 389-392.
